DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Chuckleheads 6 Marcus Aurelius, for one
11 Distraction in a dr.’s
waiting room
14 Meet part
15 Confection typically flavored with saffron and rosewater
16 Make public
17 *Obstacle encountered at dawn?
19 Letters before a take
20 Ruse
21 Flamenco shout
22 Sleep study subject
24 *Plot where blue bars of soap grow?
27 Pro Football Hall of
Famer Troy
31 __ roll
32 Certain crosscountry traveler
33 Two or three, say
35 Setup punches
38 Chest muscles, briefly
39 Conclude with, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues
40 Four-award acronym
41 Big Apple store
42 Fibber
43 “Pride Is the Devil”
rapper
44 Soaks up the sun
46 Short revitalizer
47 *Time when tall, thick grass covers a golf course?
51 “It’s open!”
52 Soup container
53 Western gas chain
57 Avocado discard
58 *Shoutout to a
ride-hailing app?
62 System starter?
63 “They were no match for me!”
64 Center of
Renaissance art
65 Actor Cariou
66 Pert
67 Anti-anxiety drug
DOWN
1 Appliance alert
2 Not quite round
3 Round number?
4 Merely
5 Porcine pen
6 NFL coach with the most career wins
7 Scale allowances
8 Not fresh
9 Secret suffix
10 Ancient land on the Dead Sea
11 *Everyone’s favorite firebreathing monster?
12 Mann of pop
13 [But I don’t wanna do my homework!]
18 Windfall
23 Cast
24 Jaguar, for one
25 His and hers
26 Gala garb
27 Egyptian cobras
28 Maker of BILLY
bookcases
29 *Controller part that gets worn out playing “Mortal Kombat”?
30 Text, e.g.
33 Star __: expensive
spice
34 Rx overseer
36 Whirled weapon
37 Pedometer unit
39 Large deer
43 “SNL” alum Hooks
45 “I dunno” gestures
46 Post-op wear for
some pets
47 Drive away
48 Waiting in the
wings
49 Surveyor’s units
50 __ the Owl: Rice
University mascot
53 Naan flour
54 “Glass Onion” filmmaker Johnson
55 Bar mixer
56 Black gemstone
59 Campy scarf
60 UFO aviators
61 Squash