Today's crossword

ACROSS

1 Mike and __: fruitflavored candy 4 Spanish small

plates

9 Bungling 14 Supervillain

Luthor

15 On one’s toes 16 Fourth prime

number 17 Fish-throwing Muppet __ Zealand

18 Wall Street

fluctuation 20 Sambuca flavor 22 Spanish

grandmother 23 Unpaved side of

the road

27 Patella place 28 Common first section of a menu, familiarly 29 Food Network

host Garten 32 Jeans accent 34 Architect’s

creation

37 Take a different route, and a hint to the circled letters

41 Grumble over 42 Swamp reptile,

for short

43 “lol oops” 44 Exceedingly 45 Mountain

climber’s goal 49 Boundary of a

black hole

53 See where one’s

coming from 55 Like a couch

potato

56 Overly cute “So

cute!”

60 Business VIP 61 Country singer Gill or writer/ producer Gilligan 62 Deceitfulness 63 Meat in a Dr.

Seuss title 64 Shutter strips 65 Les __-Unis 66 Player coming off the bench, for short

DOWN

1 “Let me find out” 2 Passionate about

By Noelle Griskey

3 Post-divorce party 4 Brings under

control

5 Styled after

6 “As __ our

agreement” 7 Noah’s boat 8 Fantastic deals 9 Debate topic 10 More

contemporary 11 Like a supervillain 12 Former MLB catcher Tony in the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame

13 “Star Trek”

series, for short 19 Not yet

scheduled: Abbr. 21 Fondue fuel 24 Safe space 25 Persuasive

column 26 High-strung 29 Sundial three 30 Private aid gp. 31 “I Hope You Dance” singer Lee __ Womack 33 Tennis player

Swiatek

34 Half a droid

name

35 Prefix with system 36 Use a colander 37 “Ghosts” network 38 Yonder lass 39 Minnesota

senator Klobuchar 40 Poison ivy

reaction 44 High-strung 46 Prague residents 47 “The Island of Doctor __”: H.G. Wells novel

48 Bury

49 Put in power 50 Bouquet holders 51 Pilot’s update,

briefly

52 Reacts to yeast 53 Bubble and churn 54 One of four active

volcanoes in Italy 56 Den sets

57 Not trendy 58 Fjord kin 59 Simple sammie