DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Shipwreck signal 4 Stan of Marvel Comics
7 Catch in a trap 12 Time period 13 Off-roader’s purchase, for short 14 Quest for intel 15 *Instant in which emotional decisions are made 18 Middle-earth menace
19 Female surfer 20 Times to remember
21 Got a lift, in a way 23 Popular mints
25 Tea container 27 Gradually come to be
31 Wander about 33 Pasture
35 Where one may be taken to be reprimanded 36 Verb in a recipe 37 Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be?
40 Tennis court divider
41 Family gathering attendee
43 Pacific Coast st. 44 Loch with a legend
45 Ties to a post 48 Rene of
“Get Shorty” 50 Show flexibility 52 Dampen, as sound
55 Help in a bad way?
58 Coral named for its shape 60 Wheaton who played himself on “The Big Bang Theory”
61 *Defeat soundly 64 More despicable 65 Talk trash to 66 Cork’s country 67 Cowboy singer
Gene 68 Uneaten morsel 69 Ship in Genesis
DOWN
1 *Flaky type 2 Cheerios grain 3 Came down in flakes
4 Plastering strip 5 Value system 6 Tied, as a score 7 “Seats all taken” sign
8 Archrivals
9 Asian laptop brand
10 Barrett of gossip 11 Tolkien tree race 12 Macedonian neighbor
15 MLB’s Astros, on scoreboards 16 “Fiddle-__!” 17 Trifling
22 Battering __
24 Spot on the tube 26 Vote of support 28 *Employment field
29 Keats works
30 Vets’ concerns 31 Rave’s partner 32 Dog in the comics 34 Brouhaha
37 Owner’s document
38 Blunder
39 Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. __ 42 Idle talk 44 Bounced-check letters
46 Reckless
47 Racer’s bathing suit
49 Naturally brewed beverage
51 Animal with a snout
53 Vitality
54 Santa helper 55 Palindromic pop group
56 Steady guy 57 Toward sunrise 59 Speedy
62 “Do or do not. There is no __”: Yoda
63 Title for Paul or Ringo