DAILY BRAIN TEASERS

ACROSS

1 Cert. for some babysitters

4 Golden St. region 9 Chase a fly, maybe

13 Summer arrival 14 “Sweet Love” singer Baker 15 Maker of G-Shock watches 17 Sci-fi invaders 18 *Traditional Thanksgiving entree 20 Venezuelan cornmeal cake 22 “Big Blue” 23 Certain sib 24 *Feature of anxiety, often

28 N. Dak. neighbor

29 Egyptian boy king

30 Novelist Jaffe 31 Mean monster 32 Cultural no-nos 34 Successful dogcatcher, e.g.

35 *The “order” part of a “Law & Order” episode 37 “Or even less” 40 Hardly fresh 42 Alexander Hamilton’s birth island 43 __-false test 44 This minute 46 Trashy place? 47 *Piano lesson pages

50 Words of agreement

51 Big part of an alligator

52 Bygone anesthetic

53 “Enough already!” or what one may do to each answer to a starred clue

58 “How Easy Is That?” cookbook writer Garten 59 Aromatic bulb 60 Brief appearance in a film

61 Tony winner Vereen

62 Group after boomers

63 City considered Japan’s cultural capital

64 Biblical craft

DOWN

1 See-through 2 Domesticated rodent

3 Circular diamond shape

4 See-through wrap 5 Grammy-winning Yoko

6 “Homeland” org. 7 @ signs

8 Sonia Sotomayor, for one

9 Film on a pond

10 “This means __!” 11 Invites to dinner, maybe

12 Connect with

16 Raw bar mollusk

19 Letters on an incomplete schedule

21 Crunchy hummus scooper 25 Backsplash binder 26 “Wuthering Heights” setting 27 About to happen

28 Nattily dressed snack food mascot 31 Rager

33 Feathery accessories

34 Military rookie 36 Whodunit board game

37 “Closer to Fine” duo __ Girls

38 In a row? 39 Lifetime channel offering

41 Japanese electronics giant

43 Hitting sound 45 Ballpark frank 47 Won at musical chairs 48 “I feel the same way”

49 Curmudgeon 51 Curse

54 Geologic time unit 55 Line in a child’s drawing of the sun 56 Full of feelings 57 “Quiet on the __!”