Crossword

ACROSS

1 Chowder bit 5 Conversation 9 Chopped cabbage sides 14 Tree with needles 15 Mine, in Metz 16 Bounce off the wall 17 Online site for making a will 19 Wagner work 20 Not kidding 21 Wards (off) 22 System of connected PCs 23 Ironic exclamation before an unsurprising announcement 26 __-di-dah: pretentious 28 Suffix with violin

30 “__ a Sin”: Pet Shop Boys hit 31 Fashion’s Versace 33 __-pitch

34 Coif for the prom 38 Fills (someone) in about the latest developments 41 Flat to change, in Chelsea 42 Attempt 43 Profited 44 Some fridges 45 Coop layer 46 Online chats, briefly

47 All people, with “the” 52 Airer of old quiz show reruns, for short 54 San Antonio mission 55 Placate 58 Doodle on the guitar 59 Hollywood pre-award speculation 61 Get up 62 Summer weather word 63 Muffin spread 64 Stuns in an arrest 65 Legend 66 Hawaiian root

DOWN

1 NCO below sgt. 2 False statements 3 Thin spaghetti 4 Anne who teamed with Stiller 5 Starbucks tea brand 6 Total up (to) 7 Running free 8 “Lil’” rapper 9 Pooh-poohs, with “at” 10 Boutonniere site 11 Sports stadium 12 Lexicographer’s love

13 Huge hit 18 Every cloud’s silver feature? 24 Go limp

25 Moe or Curly, e.g. 26 Rainbow flag letters 27 Well-ventilated 29 Anne Brontë, to Emily 32 Opposite of SSW 33 One of many in TV’s “The Americans” 34 AP competitor 35 Florida, mostly 36 Consider to be 37 Pre-Kentucky Derby postings 39 Heavenly bear

40 Birth control activist Margaret 44 Pointy-hatted garden figures 45 Jazz music fan 47 Attacks 48 Michelob diet beer

49 He broke Ruth’s home run record 50 Get a guffaw from

51 “... mighty __ has struck out” 53 Wooden shoe 56 Way in the woods 57 Weizman of Israel

59 Unit of resistance 60 Animal house