DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Dart around like a hummingbird
5 Like 9-Across that has lost its fizz
9 Dark drink with fizz
13 Easier to write neatly on, probably
15 Like tinned sardines
16 Las Vegas WNBA team
17 “Drive Happy” car rental company
18 Harvest
19 School gps.
20 *Mahalia Jackson’s genre
23 Poem of praise
24 “Passing” actress Thompson
25 “Friendly” cartoon ghost
27 Abbr. between names
29 *Colorful top with a tropical design
32 Contributor with deep pockets
35 Esteem
36 Layers on tall wedding cakes
37 Orchestra __
38 Greek storyteller who coined “sour grapes”
42 German steel city
44 Current influence on the weather?
45 *Trial figure who can give a firsthand account
49 “__ Is a Woman”: Ariana Grande song
50 Hair gel alternative
51 Joyous song
54 Wrinkly pup
55 Nature lovers, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are
60 Actor Guinness
62 Cathedral section 63 Passion
64 Fork prong
65 Mouse mover
66 Rational believer
67 Stiletto, for one
68 “A __ formality”
69 One-named singer from County Donegal
DOWN
1 Mark as important 2 “__ & Stitch”
3 Too worked up to relax
4 City between Phoenix and Mesa
5 Like most proms 6 In __ of
7 Word of sorrow
8 “You’re so predictable”
9 Mushroom top
10 Sea creatures with eight arms
11 Front-runner
12 Stand up for (oneself)
14 Female deer
21 Aspiring atty.’s exam
22 Unlike most proms
26 High shine
27 To the rear, at sea 28 “Cobra __”: Netflix series based on “The Karate Kid”
30 Just like ewe
31 Beret, e.g.
33 Rowing teams
34 Pass that leads to a successful basket
37 Signing-ceremony memento
39 Entered a username, say
40 Singer Yoko
41 Okra unit
43 Breastbone
44 Biblical twin 45 One who feels another’s pain
46 “That’s not true!”
47 Oregon city on the Willamette
48 Orb
52 “My stars!”
53 Match, as subjects and verbs 56 Alleviate
57 “Don’t you __ stop!?”
58 Pinkish
59 Spanish miss: Abbr.
61 Cartoon frame