DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Otherwise

occupied 5 “Checkmate!” 9 Concert gear 13 “__ upon a midnight dreary ...” 14 Origami bird 15 Henhouse

16 “¡__ mío!” 17 Rabbit kin 18 Color of

unbleached linen 19 Dinner and drinks with a preacher? 22 Actor Jeong 23 “Quite so” 24 Move, roots

and all 26 Thousands of years, for a megalith?

31 __ Diego

34 CNN anchor

Burnett

35 Brain teaser aid 36 Bouillon cube

maker

38 “Queen __”: pop

music nickname 40 Big fetes 41 Quechua speaker 42 Nonpayment

risk, for short 44 Squalid digs 45 Exam for a certificate in mediation? 50 “Same!”

51 Titter

55 Golf ball position 57 Brief moment, or what three long answers in this puzzle have? 60 Gumbo pod 62 Miso soup base 63 Possess

64 Ray

65 Like some rural

roads at night 66 Rid of wrinkles 67 “__ there, tiger” 68 Poems of praise 69 Ice cream brand with a birthday cake flavor

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1 __ Tree: place of enlightenment in Buddhist tradition 2 Collective

bargaining group 3 Give a good

talking-to 4 “Okay, I get it” 5 Country where

Farsi is spoken 6 New Orleans

voting district 7 Like challenging

pushups

8 Lipton rival 9 Royal flush card 10 Nojito and nada

colada, for two 11 Sweat outlet 12 Like some

silk or sugar 14 Garment similar

to a hijab 20 Parking post 21 Short music

releases

25 Job safety org. 27 Bit of cacao 28 Month before

febrero

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29 Little pest

30 Site with

handmade crafts 31 Omit

32 Actress

Hathaway

33 Sign at some

museums

37 Sack __

39 Thus far 40 “Check it out” 43 Watch the birdie? 46 UFO beings 47 Tegan and Sara,

for one

48 “Independence Day” director Emmerich 49 Computer pro 52 Stockpile 53 Diplomat 54 Perfect places 55 Ear part

56 Store whose packages typically contain Allen keys 58 Archipelago part 59 __ end up 61 Sedaris of “The

Mandalorian”