CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chums

5 Lacks the ability to

9 Not spicy, as wings

13 On the Pacific

14 China’s continent

15 Potato-prep kitchen tool

16 *Metaphorical tablet for the overly nervous

18 Ancient Greek theater

19 Sailors’ yeses

20 Trinidadian music genre

22 Batman’s butler

25 Buyer’s opposite

26 Fishing boat

27 Actress Pinkett Smith

28 Troubles

31 Trouble

32 Sacred

34 C.S. Lewis’ fantasy world

36 Mimic

37 *Flattering deception

39 Disney collectible

40 Do a city planner’s job

42 Farm cluckers

43 “Bambi” doe

44 Biblical garden site

45 Riyadh resident

47 Played for a sap

48 Influential moneybags

50 Tousles, as hair

52 Old-fashioned, closefitting undergarments

54 Diamond Head’s island

55 Let up

56 Harbinger of lower temperatures, and a hint to the answers to starred clues

61 Nero or Claudius

62 Running shoe brand

63 __ Lackawanna Railway

64 Look intently (at)

65 Come dramatically into view

66 __ between the lines

DOWN

1 Lobbying gp.

2 Tapped-off cigarette part

3 Luau garland

4 Weekly pay, say

5 Dressed like many a superhero

6 Without warranty

7 No goals, in soccer

8 Sprinkled with baby powder 9 Halfway-through-the-term exam

10 *2005 Disney figureskating film

11 Some July babies

12 Bond villain who attended med school

15 Sushi __

17 Corrosive chemical

21 Support group for families of drinkers

22 Pop-up-producing program

23 Like a lasso’s business end

24 *Stop-action effect

25 “Come again?”

27 Former “Idol” judge, familiarly

29 One with a collateral loan

30 Caesar and Cobb

32 TV shopper’s channel

33 Type of short play

35 Tummy muscles

38 Ex-Florida governor Bush

41 Astronomical way to wish

46 Imp

47 Loan shark

49 High-schooler, typically

50 Palindromic title

51 Old TV dial letters

52 Kvetch like a fish?

53 Bassoon kin 54 Varied mixture

57 Ab __: from the beginning

58 Salem is its cap.

59 Actress Long

60 Texas senator Cruz