Crossword
ACROSS
1 Potentially insensitive, briefly 5 Police 9 ABBAʼs “__ Mia!” 14 Vidalʼs
Breckinridge 15 Pequod captain 16 Native
Nebraskans 17 Plenty 18 Islamic branch 19 Transports by
truck 20 Winding, hilly
thoroughfares 23 Gandhiʼs land 24 Like oysters on
the half shell 25 French water 28 Not kid around 33 IV amounts 36 List-shortening
abbr. 37 Italics feature 38 Walter White
shaved his off 40 In contention (for) 43 On the house 44 Aimée of “La
Dolce Vita” 46 Dmitriʼs dissent 48 In low spirits 49 Traitorous spies 53 Driverʼs license
info 54 Wayside stop 55 One-up 59 Halloween discards, and what the three sets of circles represent? 64 “Dallas” surname 66 Solid precipitation 67 Backside in a
fall? 68 Long-shot ragsto-riches enabler 69 Ices, mob-style 70 Girl in a Salinger
story 71 Enter on a laptop 72 Italian eight 73 Sweetheart
DOWN
1 Savory taste first identified in Tokyo 2 Carpet synthetic 3 __ as a peacock 4 Tabby stimulant 5 Joséʼs house 6 “Fancy meeting
you here!” 7 “No __, no gain” 8 Mall pizza chain 9 Goth hairstyles 10 Opposite of
17-Across 11 Headpiece for kids in Mickeyʼs TV club 12 Filmmaker
Brooks 13 Biblical beast of
burden 21 Yarn 22 Boating blade 26 Sleep concern 27 “¿Cómo
está __?” 29 Dune buggy,
briefly 30 “We did it!” 31 Throw wildly 32 North Pole
toymaker 33 “Hanging” problems in the 2000 election 34 Algonquin
transport 35 Iowa port on the Lewis and Clark Trail 39 Coax (out), as a
genie 41 “Science Guy”
Bill 42 Title for DDE 45 Fictional language spoken by Sheldon and Leonard on “The Big Bang Theory” 47 Sporty car roof 50 Wind up 51 Slangy “Movinʼ
right along ... “52 Had a late meal 56 Not long-winded 57 Daytime soap,
e.g. 58 Big name in
blenders 60 Opposed to 61 Float like a feather in the breeze 62 Breakup 63 “Let me add ... ” 64 Yellowstone
grazers 65 Misery