Crossword

ACROSS

1 Twinings product 6 Spare tire 10 Market

aggressively 14 Immortal Detroit sportscaster Harwell

15 Yarn

16 Wild about

17 One of 26 in the

Maldives 18 *Maximum number of jousters allowed in a Ren faire tournament? 20 Not touch 21 Entomologistʼs

tool

22 Old enough 23 Honker in old

comedy films 25 Unsubstantial 26 “Silent All These

Years” singer Tori 28 Radiate

31 Minus

32 Put down

34 Step on it 36 United

37 *One who really, really knows how to spin a yarn? 39 Chic retreat 42 “Uh-oh. Better get ... ” collision repair company 43 Showed surprise 45 Rum-soaked

cake 48 High-scoring

club?

50 Suds

51 Urgent order 53 Fiber-__ cable 55 Sportscast

embellishment 56 Trifle

58 Poppy product 61 *Excelled at filling in historical timelines? 63 Wolfgang Puck

chain

64 Trillion: Pref. 65 Itʼs often steamed 66 What Ma knows

well

67 Baking soda

target

68 Word of woe 69 “The Kominsky

Method” co-star

DOWN

1 Toll

2 Deco master 3 *Tree trunk? 4 Primer type 5 Sushi bar

supplier

6 Ky. army post 7 Country __ 8 Touched down 9 Ask to be excused, with “off”

10 Hidden danger 11 Set free

12 Puts on

13 Ones who never

lose faith 19 Manual weed

whacker 24 George Eliot, e.g. 25 Supplemental

health insurance 26 Brouhaha

27 “Of Mice and __” 29 Kate on the cover of Vanity Fairʼs 100th anniversary issue

30 Wet blanket 33 Dossier letters 35 __ discount 38 Bar staple 39 Total alternative ... and a feature of the answers to starred clues? 40 Wasabi-coated

snack

41 Recipe verb 42 Thoroughbred grandfather of Seabiscuit 44 Amazon, for one 45 __ basics 46 Made up (for) 47 Short jacket 49 Drunks

52 Shout

54 Teatro Costanzi

premiere of 1900 56 Yacht outing 57 Whale also called

a blackfish 59 Not-cute fruit 60 Night light 62 Stretch often named for a music genre