THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Sponge (off)
6 Degs. for CFOS
10 1040 ID figs.
14 Place to perform
15 Additionally
16 Shiny sticker?
17 The worst description of poor purses?
19 __ chips
20 Breading choice
21 Has quite a kick
22 Rx writer
25 Completely unlike a docile man?
28 Investment firm figure
31 Agent, informally
32 Simu of “Kim’s Convenience”
33 Italian birthplace of Paganini
34 Element in some smoky whiskies
35 Filmmaker Lee
36 The furthest thing from tidier rooms?
40 Call (out)
42 Swimmer Torres who won 12 Olympic medals
43 Literary form
46 Consists of
47 Letters before a pen name
48 Spartan
50 The opposite of one who is not against?
53 Patch, perhaps
54 Size for fries
55 Cut a rug
58 Gloating cry
59 Treated with a decided lack of due respect?
64 Promontory
65 Pennsylvania city across from Presque Isle State Park
66 Sports news
67 Seers?
68 Over and done with
69 Madonna hit that begins, “Strike a pose”
DOWN
1 2023 World Series honor for Corey Seager
2 Poetic contraction
3 “Double Fantasy” singer
4 Astrological delineation
5 __ filter
6 Word with fish or meat
7 Sign of spring
8 Tempe sch.
9 Scouring brand
10 Retro tone
11 Soulcycle offering
12 Bottom line
13 Shell-less gastropod
18 Comes to a halt
21 Some plastic fasteners
22 Peace Nobelist Hammarskjöld
23 Single
24 Peppermint pattern
26 Ice cream cookie
27 In the ballpark
29 Liverpool lav
30 Gridiron stat
34 Educational org.
37 Shortfin shark
38 Turkey neighbor
39 NYC hrs.
40 Ceremonial goblet
41 Bolted
44 Equal
45 Evergreen shrub
48 How cutlery is typically sold
49 Alternative magazine name
51 Hong Kong politician and social activist Chow
52 “Luther” star Elba
56 Video surveillance letters
57 Irish capital
59 Oomph 60Bullpen fig.
61 __ sale
62 Georgetown closer
63 Barely passing mark