DAILY BRAIN TEASERS

ACROSS

1 Puzzle (out) 5 Synonymous 9 Software glitches 13 Leg joint

14 Slacks, slangily 15 Fall birthstone 16 Thing

17 Wag

18 Like an unswept hearth

19 Watering hole where servers may wear leis

21 Animal Planet’s “Crikey! It’s the Irwins” co-star 23 Dead __ Scrolls 24 “The Memory of Trees” singer 26 Youngsters 29 Quote

31 Linguist Chomsky 33 Org. concerned with “forever chemicals”

34 Language related to Czech

36 SHO subsidiary 37 Yemeni port 38 Residence

39 Pal

41 F-150 maker 42 Catch

43 Spy-fi org. 44 Breathing room 46 Unceasingly, in poetry

47 Policy pro 48 Home turf? 49 President __ 51 Pedicure targets 53 Saturn or Mercury

56 Asia’s __ Peninsula

58 Verification tool for online alcohol retailers, e.g.

60 Not that

62 Way to go 64 Furniture retailer that sells FIXA tool kits

65 Remove from power

66 Lip

67 Clockwork part 68 __ of life 69 “Clue” actress Madeline

70 Systems of principles

DOWN

1 Funny sketches 2 Loosen, as a bow 3 *Act the mediator 4 Interstate rig

5 Tale

6 Craft for the first couples cruise? 7 Chandon’s partner 8 *Illinois alma mater of Ronald

Reagan

9 Scrabble surface

10 Desserts flipped after bak- ing, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues

11 Exasperated cry

12 Under- handed

17 *”Malcolm in the Middle” actress 20 __ test

22 Lip

25 Like the Dada movement

27 Judith Weir composition

28 Blondish

30 Tony winner Judith

32 Astonished letters 34 Subject of a late-night countdown

35 Also-ran 37 Three or four 40 Soccer star Hamm 45 Let (up)

47 Cartoon frame 50 Officiate at a cookoff, say

52 Like some granola 54 First-stringers

55 Brings up

57 Jedi with an unusual speech pattern 59 Supermodel Hadid 60 Small fry 61 “Ben-__” 63 Exasperated cry