The Daily Crossword

ACROSS

1 Mustang

automaker

5 Honey liquor

9 “__ Mia!”: ABBA

musical

14 Nike rival

15 Convention center

event

16 Noble gas in some

lasers

17 Prepare for a

newborn’s arrival 18 Softball glove

19 Entice

20 *Title of many

compilation albums 23 Old 1-Across

named for a horse 24 Stores

27 Costello partner

30 Sweetie

31 Vote in favor

33 Actress Polo

34 *Not at all talkative 38 Take along

40 ISP pioneer

41 Covert agents

42 *Taylor Swift song with the lyrics “You can’t get rid of it / ‘Cause you remember it ... “

45 “To be,” in French 46 Up to, briefly

47 Directional suffix

48 Agitation

50 White __ machine:

sleep aid

52 Sight-singing

teaching method 54 *”There’s no way to

know yet”

59 Infomercial dude 62 Dancer Falana

63 Drink whose logo

has frosted letters 64 LEGO brand for

tots

65 “Stay” singer Lisa 66 CBS military drama 67 Reproductive

health pro

68 Pop artist Warhol 69 Superlative acronym spelled out by the starts of the answers to the starred clues

DOWN

1 Long, pointed tooth 2 “Evvie Drake Starts __”: novel by Linda Holmes

3 Counterpart of run in calculating the slope of a line

4 Unit of information 5 Foul ball caught at

a game, e.g.

6 Have life

7 Likely will, after “is” 8 Biblical verb

9 “Crash Into Me” rock group Dave __ Band

10 Childish retort

11 Old RKO rival

12 Messy hairdo

13 Industrious insect 21 __ for tat 22 “No need to tell me what happened there”

25 Mineral that

resembles gold

26 Passover

meals

27 Facing the pitcher 28 German capital

29 S.O.S alternative 30 Kristen of “The

Good Place”

32 Strong point

35 Young deer

36 Adversary

37 The “O” of IOS

39 Contributes to, as

a group gift 43 Utah city near

Provo

44 Soothing song

49 Super Bowl org. 51 Setting of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels 52 Faint

53 Lubricated

55 “Boo’d Up” singer

__ Mai

56 Danish shoe brand 57 A Skywalker twin 58 For fear that

59 Hullabaloo

60 Name

61 Fuel efficiency

stat