The Daily Crossword

ACROSS

1 Sarah Spain’s

network

5 Percussion set

10 Cards

14 “Go on, git!”

15 Tickle

16 __ were

17 Textile machine

18 Nigerian seaport 19 “Ciao”

20 Medic with an office at Fisherman’s Wharf?

23 Expert

24 Extremely chill

25 Leaders inclined to

work as a group? 31 Extremely cold

32 Channel marker

33 Picked up the tab 35 BYU or NYU

36 Sun screen

37 Strive (for)

40 African country in the Maloti Mountains

41 Drains

42 Summits

45 Captain Hook’s incredulous assessment of his nemesis?

47 Statue base

49 Melber of MSNBC 50 Puts comfy shoes through rigorous testing?

56 Tropical spot 57 Safari equine

58 Most CFOS

60 Some game

61 “Middlemarch”

novelist

62 Bend at a barre 63 Retired boomers 64 Action

65 Blood bank fluids

DOWN

1 Subj. for those wishing to be bilingual

2 Utterly beyond

repair

3 Play down

4 Motto for the

ruthless

5 Meteorological effect caused by refraction

6 Desktop with an

Applecare option 7 Literary award with

a spaceship logo

8 Starting on

9 Lab work

10 Thinned (down)

11 Pulitzer-winning journalist Wilkerson

12 Early ICBM

13 Hung around

21 Play-__

22 “Science of Logic”

philosopher Georg 25 Small ammo

26 Director Jean-__

Godard 27 LAX postings

28 Superhero once played by Stephen Amell on The CW 29 “__ Comes to Pemberley”: P.D. James novel

30 Obama daughter 34 Friendly honk

36 Rats, gnats, and

brats

37 Element in an

algebraic equation 38 Wall St. event

39 Key that exits fullscreen mode

40 Brand of packaged

bagels 41 Is extremely frugal 42 Ladybug prey

43 Shuts

44 “The Gleaners” painter Jeanfrançois

46 River that rises in

the Bernese Alps 48 Fuzzy states

51 Move to a warmer

state?

52 Drama honor

53 Cut short

54 Ink

55 Place to hibernate 59 “Wide Sargasso __”: Jean Rhys novel