DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Athletic brand that shares its name with a big cat
5 Cold desert in Asia
9 “Shucks!”
13 Asked for proof of age, say
14 Admissions hurdle
15 “Let’s Dance” singer David
16 Like 9-Downs
17 Semester
18 Super cool digs?
19 High price to pay, metaphorically
22 Bell bottoms option
23 Pudge on an infant
27 Eclectic musician Brian
29 Star cluster that resembles a bird of prey
32 Oscar nod, briefly
33 Key mistake?
34 “Shucks!”
35 Letting in a draft, maybe
37 Part of the “Law & Order” franchise, familiarly
39 Blow hard
40 Mediterranean microstate
43 One-named Irish singer
46 Tuna roll topping
47 Health regimen modeled on the cuisine of Japan’s Ryukyu Islands
49 Cease
50 Screamed, perhaps
51 “One __ at a time”
53 Salad dressing brand, and a feature of 19-, 29-, and 47-Across?
58 Guiding belief
61 “Out! Out!”
62 Made it
63 “Hadestown” playwright Mitchell
64 Lawsuit basis
65 Cash for cards
66 Bend out of shape
67 Boo-boo
68 Covert convo start
DOWN
1 Bread with tzatziki
2 Japanese soup noodle
3 Grandiose delusions
4 Really dig
5 Have one’s voice heard
6 Beasts that pulled covered wagons
7 Avon product?
8 Third No. 1 hit for the Black Eyed Peas
9 Stuffed diner’s request
10 Piercing tool
11 Kia model
12 Recent prefix
15 “Sorry” singer Justin
20 __ and greet
21 Get, as a job
24 “Where do you see yourself in five years” subject
25 Brie of “Community”
26 Heavily inked
27 Utterly charm
28 “I swear!”
30 Apple Maps tech
31 Really dug
36 Party bowlful from 53-Across
38 College, to Brits
41 Open-air enclosures for some pets
42 Had to pay
44 Political endorsement
45 Poori flour
48 Lengthens
52 Yosemite peak, familiarly
54 DIY site
55 Tuna roll wrap
56 911 responders: Abbr.
57 Chuck, slangily
58 Cry from a crow
59 Molecule in some vaccines
60 Unit of corn