East Bay Times

Today's crossword

- By Prasanna Keshava

ACROSS

1 Meal

7 Near mist?

10 Old PCs

14 Syria’s most populous city

15 “Blessed __ the peacemaker­s”

16 Large number

17 Accepts a driver’s offer

18 Cell boundary

20 Quick kisses

22 Corvallis sch.

23 Windy City commuter org.

24 The ones here

26 Comedian Margaret

28 “Sweet Love” singer Anita

30 __ Lingus

31 Bangkok residents

33 Data units

34 “And there you have it!”

35 Suspend

36 Inouye Airport arrival gift

37 __ Lanka

38 Trisected

41 “You get the idea” abbr.

44 Religious woman 46 Glossary entry

47 Long, long __

48 Remove one’s username from, on social media

50 Comedian Anne featured in Jerry Stiller’s memoir “Married to Laughter”

51 Aromatic tree

52 Areas that may be irritated by shirt tags

53 Sculling need

54 __ macchiato

56 K-12 support gp.

57 Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s country: Abbr.

59 Conductor Zubin

61 Devices for reproducin­g signatures

64 __ star

67 Old PC screens

68 Narrow waterway

69 Get-up-and-go

70 Florida vacation destinatio­n

71 Stop on the road

72 __ tickets

DOWN

1 “Yay, team!”

2 “Xanadu” gp.

3 “Peanuts” girl who calls Charlie Brown “Chuck”

4 Cathedral niches

5 Add interest 6 Honky-__

7 Mom, dad, sibs, etc.

8 Cookies for breakfast?

9 Tiara twinklers

10 Syr. neighbor

11 Formal social events

12 Protégé

13 Takes an oath

19 Party device filled with liquid soap

21 Barely enough

24 Bar bills

25 Pick up

27 British afternoon tradition, and what this puzzle’s four longest answers literally have?

29 “Yes,” on Talk Like a Pirate Day

32 “The Summer I Turned Pretty” novelist Jenny

39 Break a peace treaty, perhaps

40 Make a mistake

42 Pre-weekend shout

43 Center

45 Dubai’s fed.

48 Prepare to stay a couple nights, say

49 Inherent character

50 Informal greeting

55 Clueless

58 “The Americans” star Russell

60 “¿De dónde __?”

62 WWII spy org.

63 Word with Jose or Juan

65 Private aid prog.

66 OB-__: med. specialty

 ?? ??

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