DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Praised 7 Stalagmite creator 11 Spam holder 14 Periodic Pacific
current 15 American Eagle Outfitters lingerie brand
17 Whiz
18 Healthy starter 20 Zodiac animal
with horns 21 Thurman of
“The War With Grandpa” 22 Actress Goldie 23 Vocation
25 Baked side 30 Floor model
31 Genuflect
32 Pool or polo 33 Red-wrapped
cheeses
35 Julia of “The
Addams Family” 37 Area represented
by Sen. Gillibrand 38 Meaty entrée 42 Prez on a fiver 45 Whole lot 46 Muscle twitch 49 Tank top kin,
briefly
51 Crème de la
crème
54 Writer Bombeck
55 Filled dessert 59 “Taxi” mechanic 60 __ mortals
61 Place for a “snake
bite” piercing 62 “What __, chopped
liver?” 63 Sequence of dishes such as
18-, 25-, 38-, and 55-Across, in more ways than one
68 Actor McKellen 69 Leading in a tight
game 70 Barcelona’s
nación
71 Flavor enhancer,
for short 72 Buttonlike earring 73 Squeaky ball, e.g.
DOWN
1 Slight advantage 2 Apple pie order 3 Starless?
4 “You __ your best” 5 Chicago-to-Toronto dir. 6 Honolulu-born jet pilot who became a pop singer 7 Galápagos Islands
researcher 8 Confirms, as a
password
9 Isl. with four
provinces
10 See 36-Down
11 Traveling band 12 Private school 13 Foes that seem impossible to beat
16 Bk. read at Purim 19 Rubberneck 24 Tractor-trailer 26 Amo, amas, __
27 Crypts
28 “But it’s a dry __” 29 Hints
34 Home of many L.A. Times readers 36 With 10-Down, politician’s flag, often
39 “The Lion King”
lion
40 Word processor
feature
41 Melissa Benoist’s role on “Supergirl” 42 Accolades 43 Islands northeast
of Cuba 44 Chewing the
scenery 47 Welcome warmly 48 Rivera who holds the MLB record for career saves 50 “Blech!”
52 Apparently was 53 Mega- squared 56 Hanauma Bay’s
island
57 Gave up
58 Fan out 64 Photo __
65 Clever remark 66 Paul Anka’s
“__ Beso” 67 High hybrid stat