DAILY BRAIN TEASERS

ACROSS

1 Tie named for an annual race venue 6 Destroy, as one’s hopes

10 Spanish hero El __ 13 Land at the water’s edge

14 Look at rudely 15 Genetic messenger 16 *Ground-beefand-gravy dish

19 Out of sorts 20 Ginormous 21 Actor Eckhart of “Sully”

23 Hefty slice 25 *Penny-pincher 28 Completely wrecks 30 Pastry with a crust 31 Long-jawed fish 32 Shorthand crackerjack

33 2019 comedy “__ It Romantic” 35 Cuban coin 36 *“Ode to a Nightingale” poet 39 Numbers game 42 Where about onethird of Istanbul residents live 43 Yellowjackets, e.g. 47 George Harrison memoir “__ Mine” 48 Only partner? 49 “Border” breed 50 *Hung in the balance

54 Cat breed from an Irish Sea isle

55 101 course, typically 56 Commanded 58 T’ai __

59 Different points of view ... and a hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues

63 NFL receivers 64 “Crikey!” is a mild one

65 Soccer shoe 66 Dreyer’s partner in ice cream

67 Miss Muffet fare 68 Flocks’ relatives

DOWN

1 Basketball stats 2 Bulb in a vinaigrette

3 Collect and put in order, as document pages 4 “You do it, __ will!” 5 Radio host John 6 Bread-to-be

7 See eye to eye

8 Wily

9 Fellows

10 Sound from an old staircase 11 Steamed up 12 Montana neighbors, with “the”

17 Tampa NFL team

18 Shock, as a perp

22 Emperor after Claudius

24 Steve Martin’s instrument 26 Sleep clinic study

27 Falafel holder 29 John in the Albert Hall 33 Atlas enlargement 34 Enjoy the slopes

35 Song of praise 37 Oscar-winning composer Zimmer

38 Weeks in a fortnight

39 New Zealander 40 Flow (from) 41 Cuddled up 44 One shirking work

45 “Angels dancing” site, in a theological question 46 Gender-biased sorts

48 Oklahoma tribe 49 Formally give up 51 Pretentious

52 Let up, as a storm 53 “My Life on the D-List” comic Griffin

57 Carve in stone 60 Use oars 61 “Don’t think so” 62 Microbrewery brew