DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Big bash 5 Lestrade’s rank, in Sherlock Holmes stories: Abbr.
9 Music rights org. 14 Hose color 15 Ward of TV’s “FBI” 16 Rattle
17 Excursion in a
Loire Valley town? 19 Others, to Pablo 20 Former trucking
watchdog agcy. 21 Newscast attention-getter 23 National capital on the Cape Verde Peninsula 25 Horse of southeastern France? 29 Improve, as a
highway 31 Composer
Rorem
32 Rome’s __ Veneto 33 Going down 35 Way off the
highway 36 Relative in a Cote
d’Azur family? 40 Minute Maid Park
player, to fans 43 Rickety, say 46 “Queen Sugar”
creator DuVernay 47 Clear dishes
from
50 More work 51 Swindle at a
French festival? 54 “Because __ so!!” 56 Relieve
58 Day-__ 59 “Dust-colored,”
in Hindustani 62 Hybrid linguistic term that hints at the answers to 17-, 25-, 36and 51-Across 64 Aspect of a
problem 65 Accommodates 66 “Desperate Housewives” character
67 Set of beliefs 68 Old-time dagger 69 Lip
DOWN
1 Reeking
2 Nissan Leaf and
Toyota Prius 3 River through
Reno
4 Scand. locale 5 Ratio phrase 6 Synthetic rubber
used in waders 7 Winter weather
aftermath 8 “Islands in the
Stream” duettist 9 Loved 10 Man-goat of myth 11 Tough mutt 12 Japanese carrier that sponsors a major LPGA event 13 Box score abbr. 18 Low clouds
22 “__ of Us”: Joan
Osborne hit 24 City addr. info 26 Eggs
27 Point
28 Velvet feature 30 London’s Old __ 34 Serengeti
bovine
35 Enlists again 37 Flood 38 Richmond
winter hrs. 39 Sounding like a
dove
40 Cul-de-__
41 FDR power
program
42 Was a candidate 44 Falls for lovers? 45 Newsstand buys 47 1800s Mexican
leader Juárez 48 Flash drive port 49 Shoeshine targets 52 Microwaved 53 Longtime Utah
senator Hatch 55 They’re just what the doctor ordered 57 Massachusetts
motto starter 59 Louisville-based
fast-food company 60 Laugh syllable 61 Nolan Ryan,
notably 63 Dumbbell abbr.