DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “You Shook Me All Night Long” band 5 Apiphobe’s phobia 9 “I __ confused” 13 Wintry mess 14 Sole 15 Mountain cat 16 *Frying pans anyone can use? 18 “Oh, please!” 19 Revealing session on Reddit, for short 20 Christmas song 21 Shrimp and __ 22 *Group that attends Mass together every week? 25 Treeless plain 28 Districts 29 Like some dental floss 30 Shortcomings 32 “The Last O.G.” network 35 Bother 36 *Discussion about what fruit to bake for dessert? 38 In the style of 39 Spoil 40 Man of many words? 41 Wild beasts also called wildebeests 42 Water filter brand 44 Some surprise hits 46 *Fitting motto for Pisa’s tower keeper? 49 Big name in applesauce 50 Tirade 51 Bath mother 54 Way off 55 *Devil on one’s shoulder? 58 “What __ say?” 59 Catholic leader 60 Old Dodges 61 URL starter 62 Spy-fi country 63 Decisive defeat, and a two-word hint to the answers to the starred clues
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1 Grad 2 Gloria Estefan’s birthplace 3 ISP option 4 “Things’ll turn around, you’ll see” 5 Showed respect, in a way 6 Sherlock’s sister, per a 2020 Netflix film 7 Caribou kin 8 Pt. of GPS 9 “Just Putting It Out There” comedian Nancherla 10 Score keeper? 11 Patti known as the “Godmother of Punk” 12 Clods 13 Place for pampering 17 Ice cream holder 21 Word in many WiFi network names 22 Intel collector 23 Luxury vessel 24 La __ Tar Pits 25 Did the breaststroke, e.g. 26 “Voilà!” 27 Outrageous, as a price 30 Like the Beyond Burger 31 Curling surface 33 Sad 34 Back talk 36 Noses around 37 Wee bit 41 Negroni need 43 Family vacay, perhaps 44 “Molto __!” 45 Had done, as a portrait 46 Diet-friendly 47 Comes out, as an album 48 __ tag 49 Namesake of a speed ratio 51 List that may be accessed by scanning a QR code 52 One of a kind 53 Rx writers 55 PC core 56 Grammy winners __ Lonely Boys 57 “As I see it” shorthand