DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Activist Brockovich played by Julia Roberts
5 Without a cent 10 Youngsters 14 High-fat, low-carb
diet, casually 15 Merits
16 Falco of “Nurse
Jackie”
17 Backyard veg
etable patch, e.g. 19 “__ Enchanted”: Anne Hathaway film
20 Surveil secretly 21 Socialized at
leisure
23 Stretch the truth 25 Prefix with pod 26 Configuration before customization
34 Tiny criticism 35 24-Down soother 36 Hearing-related 37 Tennis great Arthur posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom
39 Titled
41 Mani-__
42 Hops along happily 44 Shadowboxes
46 Pen tip
47 Element of early internet art 50 Lifesaving skill, for short
51 Gaming console with a gesturebased controller 52 Leafy bowlful with hard-boiled eggs 58 Bub
62 Civil rights icon Parks 63 Brainstorming breakthroughs, and the ends of 17-, 26-, and 47-Across? 65 Opposed to
66 Bring to mind
67 Pull sharply 68 Breakfast for dinner, say 69 Used needle
and thread 70 Concludes
DOWN
1 Cardiac readouts, briefly
2 Gather crops
3 Coy response to a compliment 4 Drift into dreamland 5 Actor/director Stiller
6 Many Megan Thee Stallion songs 7 “Derry Girls” girl played by Louisa Harland
8 Celtic artwork feature
9 North Carolina’s Biltmore __
10 “Don’t stop now!” 11 Unoccupied
12 Pickle herb
13 Official emblem 18 Giant computer of the 1940s
22 Miss, in Mex. 24 Unwanted beach souvenir
26 Once-common storage media 27 Moral principle 28 Dog walker’s line 29 __ Bay Buccaneers 30 Lipstick mishap 31 “Fame” star Cara 32 Lowest point 33 Silver-tongued 34 Astronauts’ gp. 38 Dumpster fire-level blunder 40 __ a blank
43 Tentative tastes 45 Space series genre
48 Building site sights 49 Camp project with rubber bands 52 Make up for procrastination, perhaps
53 Sharpen, as a blade
54 “¿Cómo __ usted?” 55 Adoration
56 Declare publicly 57 Hockey feint 59 Incline
60 Terra firma 61 Requests
64 Went first