JERUSALEM POST DAILY BRAIN TEASERS
ACROSS
1 Entrepreneur Blakely who founded Spanx 5 Mischievous kids 11 Personal pronoun 14 Malevolence 15 7UP nickname, with “the”
16 Male cat 17 Mistake by a contestant on “The Price Is Right”? 19 “__ bet!”
20 Blazer fabric 21 Betty or Veronica 22 Edelweiss range 23 __ Bravo
25 Like neither Jack nor Jill, apparently 27 Very long response by a contestant on “Jeopardy!”? 32 Chinese tea 34 Quaint 19-Across? 35 Computer shortcut 36 Scratchy sound 38 Pecks and pounds
41 Rocky __
42 “For sure!” 44 Textile machine 46 70-Across’s div. 47 Prior results considered by a contestant on “Deal or No Deal”?
51 “Bring it!”
52 Wee bit 53 “Uptown Funk” singer Bruno 55 North African seaport
58 Royal bride’s accessory 62 Common verb 63 Pre-show training for a contestant on “Wheel of Fortune”?
65 Small pedestal 66 Bully
67 Farm grunt 68 Topper
69 Lest
70 2019 World Series champs
DOWN
1 Ticket abbr. 2 Profess without shame
3 Stand up
4 Sizes up, maybe 5 Explorer, e.g. 6 Tech review site 7 Good-sized building site
8 Mad scientist in an H.G. Wells classic
9 Drop like a stone 10 Hokkaido honorific 11 Billy Porter and Lady Gaga, for two 12 Earring shape
13 Some native Australians 18 Pindar, for one
22 Communion table
24 Birthplace of 53-Across 26 Doctrine 27 Financial independence
28 Hither and __ 29 Patterned spread 30 Face-to-face exam
31 Lymph __ 32 Footwear sometimes decorated with charms
33 “I got it”
37 Jury makeup 39 Excessively 40 Database command 43 Reserved 45 Mazda twoseater 48 Wide receiver’s shout
49 Episodic story 50 New Jersey township named for an inventor 53 “Do the __!” 54 Quarter 56 Photographer Geddes 57 CBS maritime drama
59 K2 locale 60 Lease
61 Is inquisitive 63 Eric Dickerson’s alma mater: Abbr.
64 Primus lead singer Claypool
QUICK CROSSWORD Across
1 Like the population of Alaska vis-à-vis Florida (ASP ERRS anagram) (7)
5 Empire overthrown by Cortes in 1519 (5)
8 Florida senator ___ Rubio (5) 9 Aquatic mammal you can swim with in Florida (7)
10 The opposite of nope (3) 11 Main city of the Negev (var) (9) 13 ___ World (Premier Floridaattraction) (6)
14 Gulf of ___: Body of water on Florida’s west coast (6)
17 Squeeze in one spot (9)
19 ___ Ryan (“Sleepless in Seattle” actress) (3)
21 Like a slingshot handle (1-6) 23 ___ de Leon: Florida explorer (5) 24 Donald ___ (Florida resident of Mar A Lago) (5) 25 Dressmaker’s purchase (7)
Down
1 ___ Davis, Jr. (5)
2 Germane, fittingly (SOAP PRO anagram) (7)
3 The most stuck-up (BEST BISON anagram) (9)
4 Ship’s steering blade (6) 5 Arthur Miller’s “___ My Sons”(3) 6 Lake ___ (Body of water between California and Nevada) (5) 7 Coin equaling 1/100 of a peso (7)
12 Optimum place, as on a tennis racquet (5,4)
13 Solve the code (7) 15 Humongous (MINES ME anagram) (7)
16 It precedes the pitch (in baseball) (4,2)
18 Mme. Gandhi’s father. (5)
20 Traffic light color meaning “go” (5) 22 Part of a canine litter (palindrome) (3)