DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Puzzle (out) 5 Synonymous 9 Software glitches 13 Leg joint
14 Slacks, slangily 15 Fall birthstone 16 Thing
17 Wag
18 Like an unswept hearth
19 Watering hole where servers may wear leis 21 Animal Planet’s “Crikey! It’s the Irwins” co-star 23 Dead __ Scrolls 24 “The Memory of Trees” singer 26 Youngsters
29 Quote
31 Linguist Chomsky 33 Org. concerned with “forever chemicals” 34 Language related
to Czech
36 SHO subsidiary 37 Yemeni port 38 Residence
39 Pal
41 F-150 maker 42 Catch
43 Spy-fi org. 44 Breathing room 46 Unceasingly, in
poetry
47 Policy pro 48 Home turf? 49 President __ 51 Pedicure targets 53 Saturn or
Mercury
56 Asia’s __
Peninsula 58 Verification tool for online alcohol retailers, e.g. 60 Not that
62 Way to go 64 Furniture retailer that sells FIXA tool kits 65 Remove from
power
66 Lip
67 Clockwork part 68 __ of life 69 “Clue” actress
Madeline 70 Systems of
principles
DOWN
1 Funny sketches 2 Loosen, as a bow 3 *Act the mediator 4 Interstate rig 5 Tale
6 Craft for the first couples cruise? 7 Chandon’s partner
8 *Illinois alma mater of Ronald Reagan
9 Scrabble surface 10 Desserts flipped after baking, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues 11 Exasperated cry 12 Underhanded 17 *“Malcolm in the Middle” actress 20 __ test
22 Lip
25 Like the Dada movement 27 Judith Weir composition 28 Blondish
30 Tony winner Judith 32 Astonished letters 34 Subject of a late-night countdown 35 Also-ran 37 Three or four 40 Soccer star Hamm
45 Let (up)
47 Cartoon frame 50 Officiate at a cook-off, say 52 Like some granola 54 First-stringers 55 Brings up
57 Jedi with an unusual speech pattern 59 Supermodel Hadid
60 Small fry 61 “Ben-__” 63 Exasperated cry