Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Conservatives’
foes, briefly 5 Word with run or
drive
9 More than nudge 14 Inactive 15 Muppet who doesn’t use the pronoun “I” 16 One faking it 17 Frame of mind 18 Landed 19 Student’s
measuring stick 20 *Island known for
its bars? 22 Windshield
shades 23 Homer’s
neighbor
24 Thrill
26 Part of a play 29 __ de plume 31 Polar masses 35 *Tom Sawyer’s
creator
38 In a wistful way 39 Soft French
cheese
40 Dunks, Blazers
and Jordans 42 Corned beef
specification 43 Happening 45 *Highest peak in
the Alps 47 Bureaucratic
sticking points 49 Sign of a sellout 50 __ Vegas 51 Slides
uncontrollably 53 Not online, for
short
55 Best of the hits 58 What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways 63 Opera solos 64 Steep rugged cliff 65 Indianapolis
NFLer 66 Linguistic group that includes Zulu
67 Bee home 68 Green smoothie
green, perhaps 69 Somnology study 70 Mellowed in a
cask
71 Winter fall
DOWN
1 Peruvian capital 2 Adored singer,
say
3 Voting unit 4 Family car 5 Remove, as the wall in Reagan’s demand to Gorbachev 6 Jazzy Fitzgerald 7 Tyra Banks portmanteau for happy peepers 8 Little one
9 Little ones 10 Obsolescent
doctor visit 11 Viking trading post now a world capital
12 Zig or zag 13 Boots the ball 21 Camper’s
quarters
22 Little sucker? 25 Bedding 26 “Waves of grain”
color
27 Slice the turkey 28 True partner 30 Badly injured 32 “It’s __!”: “Sold!” 33 Opening
strategy
34 Lip-__: mouths
the words 36 Campus setting for Neil Young’s “Ohio”
37 When repeated, classic New Orleans refrain 41 Like guitars and
sitars
44 Starts to learn, as
a hobby 46 Delivered
48 ATM user’s need 52 Parsley piece 54 Doesn’t have 55 Bar bills 56 Spoken
57 Tree with cones 59 House overhang 60 Gripe
61 Cockney greeting 62 Ragout or
goulash
64 Half a Latin
dance