DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stirs 5 He wrote about “a midnight dreary” 8 Gobble (up) 13 Die, with “out” 14 Blog entry 15 Capital of India 16 Capital __ 17 Colorful fish 18 Took the wrong

way? 19 Old Tokyo 20 Haul to the kitchen, as groceries 22 Word before or

after dog 23 High-five

relative 24 Poison remedy 26 Poison test site 27 Steamy stuff 30 Queen of the Goths in Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” 32 *Vandalized,

in a way 33 Romantic

activity 34 Words of wisdom 35 Country on the

Strait of Hormuz 36 Ravel classic 39 *Head of the

produce section? 43 Old-style

warning 44 Rather little 45 Understand 46 Deli staple 49 Like Beethoven’s “Pastoral Symphony” 50 Horse show

concern 52 They’re graphically represented three times in this grid ... and the answers to starred clues are the six longest common words than can be spelled using only them 53 2000 World

Series venue 54 Yearbook, e.g. 56 Bakery buy 57 Newspaper fig. 58 Little garden

party? 59 Mazatlán Mrs. 60 End in __ 61 Facilitated 62 Suffer 63 Squealed

DOWN

1 *Yielded 2 “Is it worth the

risk?” 3 Knowledgeable

about 4 Word before or

after blue 5 Online

annoyances 6 Oklahoma county in which a 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is set 7 Work __ 8 Many AARP

mems. 9 “Darn it!” 10 Ill-fated 1967

mission 11 Brush up on 12 *Place for oats 14 Member of the

force 21 Darwin, for one 25 Fruit named for

a Turkish town 28 14-Down’s need,

at times 29 Legendary flier 31 “Morning Joe”

airer 33 Like Congress 36 *Emotional

burden 37 1992 Mamet play 38 Fast-growing U.S. ethnic group 40 Reigning emperor of Japan 41 Regan’s poisoner, in Shakespeare 42 *Wiped out 47 “__ luck!” 48 Asteroids maker 51 Subdue 53 “Buzz off!” 55 Went first