DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Is sporting

6 Bobby who lost to Billie Jean King in tennis’ “Battle of the Sexes”

11 Place to unwind 14 Grenoble’s river 15 Sign up, in Sussex

16 Reliever’s asset 17 “ABC” group, with “The”

19 USN clerk

20 Hot state

21 Heat unit

22 Ruhr Valley city 24 Art class subject 26 Part-plant DC Comics superhero 28 Compulsive thief, for short 30 Thoughts spoken onstage

31 Prefix with comic

32 “Not for me”

35 Left on a liner 36 Pioneer’s wagon with an upwardcurved floor 39 Popular side 42 Sore

43 Makeshift knives 47 More minute 49 Without a

musical key 50 Weight loss

guru

54 New Haven Ivy 55 Stream of

insults, say 56 “It’s __ to you” 58 Given a meal 59 Printemps

month

60 Skirt, as an issue ... or a hint to the puzzle’s circles

63 Outer: Prefix 64 Slices in a pie,

often

65 Gold unit

66 Blue shade 67 Designer

fragrance 68 Prepared for a

TV interview

DOWN

1 Mischief 2 Ordinarily

3 Any of 11 1860s states

4 Sitcom planet 5 Outdoor home 6 Agree to more issues

7 Start to structure

8 Big name in fairy tales

9 Federal URL ending

10 Makes things slippery, in a way

11 Closes the marital deal 12 Peacock, e.g. 13 Surrounded by 18 Extremely

23 Shout from the main mast 25 Momentous victories

27 Part of UTEP 29 Excessively

32 Bench press target, for short 33 Bat wood 34 Metaphor for a mess 37 “Breaking Bad” agent

38 Prime meridian std. 39 Place near the Pennsylvania Railroad 40 Relax 41 Retirement

income source 44 Down

45 Chemical bonding number 46 Tobogganed 48 Ophthalmologist, for short

49 Lago filler 51 Wound up

costing 52 Highway through

Whitehorse 53 __-France 57 Senior’s highlight

61 Comic strip cry 62 Non opposite