DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Conservatives’ foes, briefly 5 Word with run or drive 9 More than nudge 14 Inactive 15 Muppet who doesn’t use the pronoun “I” 16 One faking it 17 Frame of mind 18 Landed 19 Student’s measuring stick 20 *Island known for its bars? 22 Windshield shades 23 Homer’s neighbor 24 Thrill 26 Part of a play 29 __ de plume 31 Polar masses 35 *Tom Sawyer’s creator 38 In a wistful way 39 Soft French cheese 40 Dunks, Blazers and Jordans 42 Corned beef specification 43 Happening 45 *Highest peak in the Alps 47 Bureaucratic sticking points 49 Sign of a sellout 50 __ Vegas 51 Slides uncontrollably 53 Not online, for short 55 Best of the hits 58 What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways 63 Opera solos 64 Steep rugged cliff 65 Indianapolis NFLer 66 Linguistic group that includes Zulu 67 Bee home 68 Green smoothie green, perhaps 69 Somnology study 70 Mellowed in a cask 71 Winter fall
DOWN
1 Peruvian capital 2 Adored singer, say 3 Voting unit 4 Family car 5 Remove, as the wall in Reagan’s demand to Gorbachev 6 Jazzy Fitzgerald 7 Tyra Banks portmanteau for happy peepers 8 Little one 9 Little ones 10 Obsolescent doctor visit 11 Viking trading post now a world capital 12 Zig or zag 13 Boots the ball 21 Camper’s quarters 22 Little sucker? 25 Bedding 26 “Waves of grain” color 27 Slice the turkey 28 True partner 30 Badly injured 32 “It’s __!”: “Sold!” 33 Opening strategy 34 Lip-__: mouths the words 36 Campus setting for Neil Young’s “Ohio” 37 When repeated, classic New Orleans refrain 41 Like guitars and sitars 44 Starts to learn, as a hobby 46 Delivered 48 ATM user’s need 52 Parsley piece 54 Doesn’t have 55 Bar bills 56 Spoken 57 Tree with cones 59 House overhang 60 Gripe 61 Cockney greeting 62 Ragout or goulash 64 Half a Latin dance