DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wildfire prevention ads, e.g.: Abbr.

5 Short video 9 Valentino classic,

with “The” 14 Certain sax

15 Cocktail garnish 16 Redhead of

Bedrock

17 Top prize

19 Highly skilled 20 Lab eggs 21 Stereotypical

baby “words” 23 Minimal damage

25 Mag. edition 26 Small but distinctive amount 28 Mandatory bet 29 __ Bar: Apple

support service 32 CIA relative 33 Homer’s “Sailing

a Dory,” e.g. 35 Insults, with “on”

37 __ land

38 Word with date

or dance

40 Pickle unit 43 Scottish winds 47 Number of

“Friends” seasons 48 Siesta wrap

51 NYC gallery 52 Where women click on the links?: Abbr. 54 Backing

55 Course from a bar 56 You may not need a bookmark for one ... and a hint to this puzzle’s circles 60 Feminine side

61 Spawn

62 Square, for one 64 Place for games 65 Do some

craftwork 66 Troubles

67 CEO’s aides 68 Italian pronoun 69 Words in many law firm names

DOWN

1 Temples with

up-curved roofs 2 Resident of Ljubljana, probably 3 Margaret Mitchell’s birthplace 4 Gardener’s

purchase 5 Egyptian queen,

familiarly 6 Venetian resort

7 “Just think!” 8 She’s behind Harris in the current presidential line of succession 9 Bravado 10 Greeting from a

sideline, maybe 11 Polished 12 Deadlock

13 Kit __

18 Classic British

sports cars 22 Pac-12’s Beavers 24 Where Musk is CEO

27 Owns

29 Gadot of

“Wonder Woman” 30 Org. concerned

with PCBs

31 Mail in a box 34 Pixar film in which Paul Newman voiced a Hudson Hornet 36 Jung’s inner self

38 63-Down genre 39 It’s just a number,

they say

40 Home of the

NHL’s Blues 41 Pizza topping 42 Fascinates 43 Scrubby

wastelands 44 62-Across, for one 45 Sent a note to,

nowadays 46 Blue state 49 Little newt 50 Boxer/actor

Mickey

53 Secret __ 55 Spanish Mrs.

57 Flight sked info 58 TV series for 18

seasons

59 Jazz diva Jones 61 Sheepish

remark? 63 “Straight Outta

Compton” group