JERUSALEM POST QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Throw with effort 6 Like some moody punk music

9 Hold responsible 14 Own up to

15 Slip on

16 Complete

17 Sound that may accompany a salute 19 Meager

20 Novelist Tyler 21 Dull pain

22 Golden Fleece ship 23 Inexpensive way to spend time off 26 Escorted to the door

31 Freezer cubes 32 Appropriate inappropriately 33 Moisten while cooking

36 Pixie

39 “Mention you, and there you are!” 42 “Inside the NBA” airer

43 Make joyful 44 “Goodnight, __”: Lead Belly song 45 Grazing field 46 Gawked

47 Ride shotgun 53 Smack hard

54 Early Ron Howard role

55 At one’s __ and call 59 Spooky

61 “Come again?” 63 Says goodbye 64 Mined resource 65 PayPal alternative 66 Reward for a pup who obeys the commands at the starts of 17-, 23-, 39-, 47-, and 61-Across

67 Roofing goo 68 Change to fit

DOWN

1 “Good joke!” 2 Genesis garden 3 Prayer ending 4 Despicable

5 And so on: Abbr. 6 Formal decree 7 Coffee-andchocolate flavor

8 Perfectly pitched 9 “Butter” K-pop band 10 Pinpoint

11 Game company since 1972

12 Snapple’s __ Madness

13 John who sings “Cold Heart” with Dua Lipa

18 Final

24 Quote as a source 25 Crushed the test 26 Romance novel emotion

27 “NBA Today” airer 28 Song for two 29 “You for Me” singer Rita

30 Property manager’s responsibility

33 Painter’s deg.

34 QB stat 35 “Nevertheless, __ persisted”

36 At any point 37 Queue

38 Ran away 40 “Frozen” snowman 41 Stretch of history 45 Nyong’o of “Black Panther”

46 Ladder rung 47 Cleaned the floor 48 “Word on the street is ... ”

49 MLB exec Joe who was the Yankees’ manager for 12 seasons 50 Automaton

51 Word with space or soap

52 Landlocked nation in West Africa

55 Raised, as farm animals

56 Poet __ St. Vincent Millay

57 Give for free 58 Hardwood flaw 60 Approximate fig.

62 Principal on ABC’s “Abbott Elementary”

Across

1 Extended family through marriage (2-4) 4 Exhausts, leaves none (4,2)

9 Oscar actor Benigni (7) 10 Do a wheel tuneup (5) 11 Part of a TV broadcast (Latin “I hear”) (5) 12 Move in an aimless way (7) 13 State-of-the-art (7,4) 18 Ethiopia’s official language (7)

20 Shadows on an equatorial sundial, say (5) 22 Fast (5)

23 Appear before a House committee (7) 24 Out there (6) 25 What some scouts look for (6)

Down

1 Headway (6) 2 Greased, oiled (5) 3 Exhausted (4-3)

5 Huge screwup (5) 6 Festive occasion with dancing: Slang. (7) 7 Destitute state (6) 8 Get one’s idea across (11)

14 Down in the dumps (7)

15 Double continent, home to nearly 70% of all people (7)

16 Croatian city (6) 17 ___ Gat, city south of Tel Aviv (6)

19 Element No.86 (5) 21 Clear frost off the windshield in the winter (2-3)