CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Knight’s
equivalent 5 Spanish for
“gold” 8 Bogus offers
13 Visa competitor,
familiarly
14 “Life of Pie” or
“Rolling Scones” 15 Role for Bella in
“The Last of Us”
16 Cowards (In this answer, note the middle three letters) 18 Terminate 19 Pixar robot
20 Backdrops for many superhero movies 23 Singer Rawls or Reed
24 Like a cold stare 25 Lose traction (... last three letters)
29 It might provide an ETA
31 Puff on a joint, say
34 Earth: Prefix 35 Fedora, e.g. 36 “Heavy” music genre 37 Lowish poker hand 40 Hopelessness 42 Carried (... first three letters) 43 Tree gunk 44 “Magic 3” rapper 45 Three-foot measuring tools 48 “Go team,” quaintly 49 Actress TaylorJoy of “The Menu” 50 End of a campus address?
51 Mineral such as bauxite 53 Grouchy remark that could be directed at this puzzle’s youngsters 59 Item in a quiver 62 Commanders’ grp. 63 Apt for Halloween 64 Assess 65 Futbol cheer 66 Minor shortcomings 67 Uzo Aduba has won three 68 Green or black drink 69 Assessment
DOWN
1 ___ Pound (Cleveland Browns Stadium section) 2 Name hidden in “steam iron” 3 Picture with a caption in Impact font, usually
4 Ejects from school
5 Grp. with Venezuela and Kuwait
6 Act wildly 7 Next up 8 Stitched
9 One may curate notes for an alumni mag 10 Entirely
11 Cool figure? 12 “Didn’t I tell you?” 17 ___-Caps 21 Nigiri, e.g. 22 Ability to discern good art 26 Japanese sword 27 Book before Jeremiah 28 Modern cameras: Abbr. 29 Like some salami 30 Opposite of prose 32 Tarnish 33 Baseball VIPs 34 “There’s no escaping me now!”
38 Practice of teaching 39 They pop up from time to time 40 Quarterback Prescott
41 ___ salts 43 Skirmish 46 Holiday when li xi is given to children 47 Formal response to “Have the time?”
48 Back down 52 Manhattan whiskey 54 Fleecy females 55 Pet pest 56 R&B’s India.___ 57 It’s good to have them about you
58 What a bird builds
59 How old you are 60 Fleecy male 61 Tropical spirit?