DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mediterranean isle for which a style of pants is named
6 Periodic table’s Pb
10 Female lobsters
14 Butcher’s garment
15 Killer whale 16 Lobster catcher
17 Takes hold
18 *Bureaucratic obstacle to environmental projects
20 Portuguese greeting
21 “Call Me by Your Name” name
23 Declined, with “out”
24 *Extreme winterweather event
28 Before, in verse
29 Dolly Parton hit
33 Nonpoetic writing 36 Phobia
38 Daffy or Bugs
40 *Nickname for a Mozart work in C major
43 Pit
44 Tons
45 Lather, __, repeat 46 Aspirations
48 PC alternative 49 *Writer of the 2023 legal thriller “The Exchange” 55 Tyler of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
59 Cereal grain 60 Prefix with tourism 61 Protection of intellectual property, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has 64 Boise’s state 66 Couple of
magazines? 67 Mayberry boy 68 When the sun rises
in the west 69 Dishwashing brand used to clean animals after oil spills
70 D.C. MLB team 71 Honking birds
DOWN
1 Chocolate substitute
2 Speed skater Ohno 3 Many a charity tournament
4 Go bad
5 Behind closed doors
6 Puzzle solver’s skill
7 Former “CNN Newsroom” anchor Barnett
8 Blackjack card
9 Actor Daniel __ Kim
10 URL intro
11 Q.E.D. part
12 Travel pillow spot 13 Raced
19 Fielding of “The Great British Bake Off”
22 Caustic chemical 25 Next to
26 “Love Train” group,
with “The” 27 Convention 30 Law school course 31 Midday 32 Geological spans 33 Comfy attire that’s
rarely worn out? 34 Regretted
35 Abbr. on old
phones
36 Future soph 37 Contractor’s fig. 39 “Science Guy” Bill 41 Red “Sesame
Street” resident 42 Lauding 47 Somewhat open 48 “Rocky III” actor
with a mohawk 50 Like three Justin
Verlander games 51 Stadium entries 52 Throw
53 __ and pains 54 Boxing legend
Archie
55 Caustic chemical 56 Little bit
57 Gush
58 Church song 62 Charged particle 63 Transcript fig. 65 Dead end?