DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bewildered 6 Public row 11 Friend 14 Missouri tribe 15 Lake that ultimately feeds 8-Down

16 “__ we good?” 17 Bingeing on chicken pieces? 19 Meadow

20 Vote against 21 Employee’s request

22 Tale of Achilles and Agamemnon 24 Tasting room container 25 Soon, to a bard 26 Roman naturalist’s baseball-playing namesake? 33 Climbing and passing places 34 Preserves, in a way 35 “Hooray!” 36 Inch, e.g. 37 Source of the fairytale sequence that creates four long puzzle puns 39 Interlaced 40 Executive gp. 41 Chart entries 42 Tailed orbiter 43 Prize coveted by competitive trees? 47 Negotiate a green 48 Echelon

49 Airport conveyors, or what are sometimes placed on them 51 Wispy clouds 53 Spanish she-bear 56 __ Today 57 Sports Officialdom Illustrated cover image? 60 Apple product 61 Superficial 62 Boredom 63 Take to court 64 Is crowded (with) 65 Falls from the sky

DOWN

1 Low

2 Nearly 9% of Earth’s surface area 3 Half-baked 4 Chicken producer 5 Pays a share of 6 Arab leader 7 Subjects of bovine mastication 8 Lake ultimately fed by 15-Across 9 Denial from Denis 10 Auto mechanic’s concerns

11 Pop or tot, e.g. 12 Bailiwick 13 Heavy metal 18 Right on the map 23 Web prefix with cat

24 Tech review website

25 “__ Nobody’s Business”: blues standard 26 Assess the depth of

27 “Blue Sky” Oscar winner 28 Where everything should be 29 Online money 30 Ventilation source

31 Roof edges

32 “I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands” speaker 37 Donation

38 Big comm. company, once 39 __ load 41 Trendy nightclub 42 Pine, e.g.

44 Son of Akhenaten 45 Box score statistic 46 Gambling game involving matching cards 49 Borrows without returning 50 Jacob’s brother 51 Dove home

52 List part 53 Hyatt competitor 54 Like a web

55 Sale warning 58 Tint 59 Duessa’s foe in Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”