DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Possesses 4 Participate in the

gig economy, say 8 Hornet’s defense 13 Moody genre 14 Added to the staff 16 Youngest

Kardashian sister 17 Legged it 18 *Pronoun for a

spokesperson 20 Missouri’s __

Mountains

22 Land by the sea 23 *Decorative touch made with a small paintbrush, e.g. 26 Text incessantly 30 Mexico’s national

flower

31 Upscale

cosmetics chain 33 Boyos

35 Time capsule object 36 *What “we are living in,” per a Madonna hit song 41 Head-scratcher 42 Polite title

43 “You free?” 46 Universal basic __ 50 Symbol on the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant cooling towers 51 *Wraps at a spa 54 Skin and bones 56 Not satisfied 57 Substances that never mix, except in the answers to the starred clues? 62 Egg cells

63 Word with

number or time 64 “Cats” poet 65 Cartoonist Sorensen who was the first woman to win the Herblock Prize 66 “Nothing gets

past me” 67 Cravings

68 Stuff in a pen

DOWN

1 Judean king 2 Gobsmacked 3 Handel bars? 4 “Mr. Brightside”

band

5 Holiday on which it’s forbidden to fast, familiarly 6 Picture of health? 7 Place to buy fish 8 Gear for Mikaela

Shiffrin

9 “She’s the one!” 10 Not well

11 “And make it

snappy”

12 “Huh!”

15 Some portals 19 Lawn tool

21 Cheer syllable

24 “I don’t believe you!” 25 Silicon __: Israel’s counterpart to California’s Silicon Valley

27 Opinion survey 28 Parched

29 Cheese partner 32 Where teens are treated like royalty? 34 Richardson of

“The Afterparty” 36 Academic 37 Concerning 38 Bughouse chess, but not classic chess 39 Hibernation

spot

40 Crave

41 Org. with carts

and drivers 44 Barak of Israel 45 “Let us!”

47 __ goal: bit of

self-sabotage 48 iOS personal

avatar 49 Gridiron

number 52 European boot? 53 Wasn’t fresh,

in a way 55 Fresh

57 Nail polish

brand

58 Bug

59 “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” songwriter __-Manuel Miranda 60 Connection 61 Geological span minor would invite game, not force. If it would be forcing, underbid with two diamonds or risk 2NT despite your weak spades.