CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

1 “No offense”

11 Get better

15 Italian for “entrepreneur” 16 Banks on a runway 17 Revue element

18 Not at all assertive 19 Music producer Estefan 20 Valleys

22 Squelch

23 __ pad

25 Gravel size

26 So-so effort

28 Soothed

30 “Didn’t think I’d see you here!”

33 Audition dismissal 35 “Tsk” evokers 37 Etymology concern

38 List on a concert T-shirt 40 Actress Headey

41 City near Nîmes 43 Collection that often happens by default 44 “The Secret of the Old Clock” sleuth 45 Food service giant 47 Asian peninsula

49 Make ends meet?

50 Felt lousy

52 Label on some bean bags 56 Empty words

58 Comoros capital

59 Stuck in traffic, say 60 Early aircraft navigation system

63 Frozen treat with Mermaid and Baby Narwhal flavors 64 Caver’s cry

65 Bird found on all seven continents

66 Spirited tale

DOWN

1 Gets into swing

2 Taste found in shrimp paste 3 Diagonal spar

4 Paleozoic marine arthropods 5 Believing, so they say

6 Phrase that may start a verdict 7 “Yesss!”

8 Plan for the future, in a way 9 Recess

10 Happy cry on a fishing boat 11 Building site code?

12 Dose of reality, perhaps 13 “Is that all?”

14 Southeast Asian spicy noodle soup

21 Front

23 Application error, perhaps 24 Informal language that includes many abbreviations 27 “Then what happened!?” 29 Colonial protector?

30 “Let You Love Me” and “You for Me” singer

31 Close political contest 32 Symbol of purification

34 Not so hot 36 Prop for a classic magic trick 39 Junior

42 “Git!” 46 Groundbreaking technology? 48 Digs a lot 49 Left

51 Chow line? 53 Complex part? 54 Emotion voiced by Lewis Black in “Inside Out” 55 Like some emotional speeches 57 44-Across, for one 58 Lemur in the “Madagascar” films 61 Pair

62 Org. led by Charles P. Rettig