DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Polio vaccine pioneer 6 Bacteria in undercooked meat 11 Blot gently 14 Budget prefix 15 Gas in flashtubes 16 Pitcher’s stat 17 *Music course for budding composers 19 Animation frame 20 Mannheim mister 21 Nondiscrimination want-ad letters 22 Rub out a pencil mark 24 *Meatless taqueria item 28 Castilian hero 31 Gate securer 32 “Get lost!” 34 AT&T news channel 35 Entrepreneur Musk

38 Tire inflator 39 *Closet accessory for neckwear 42 Señora Perón 43 Washington MLB team 45 Bath tissue layer 46 Like contentious discussions 48 Car music source 50 Kagan of the Supreme Court 51 *Marshall Islands site of nuclear testing

55 The “HD” in HDTV, briefly 56 “Wayne’s World” catchword 57 Director Kazan 61 Incubation target 62 Like the starting team, and a hint to the answers to starred clues 66 “The Simpsons” bartender 67 Host onstage 68 Banded marble 69 “__ now or never” 70 Author Dahl 71 Sandwiches on pita

DOWN

1 Eve’s third son 2 Tooth pain 3 Dutch South African 4 Circling the sun, as a planet 5 Oslo’s land: Abbr. 6 Former inmate 7 Tabloid figure, for short 8 Words before whim or hunch 9 __ Angeles 10 Newspaper ad, often 11 Track-and-field competitor in 10 events 12 Childish rebuttal 13 Cotton unit 18 Vote for passage 23 Uncle Ben’s boxful

25 Fix, as text 26 Wrist-to-elbow bone 27 Big spread with cattle, say 28 Abba of Israel 29 “Star Wars” heroine 30 Printer toner containers 33 Second-chance basket

34 Shed tears 36 Pizza parlor appliance 37 Spanish “nothing” 40 H.G. Wells race 41 Fall (over) 44 “For Pete’s __!” 47 Reaction to pollen, e.g. 49 “I beg to __”: “I don’t agree” 51 Archie Bunker type 52 Adams with a camera 53 Hauled

54 Extra NBA periods 55 Prefix with sphere meaning “half” 58 Tall story teller 59 Whip __ shape 60 “For __ 3-5”: toy box spec 63 Texter’s “I think” 64 Color TV pioneer 65 “You’re it!” game