CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 “Everything ___ Changed” (Taylor Swift song) 4 University in
Houston 8 “Goodness
gracious!” 12 Mont Blanc and
the Matterhorn 14 Org. that approves hard hats 15 Investigate 16 Seizure of power 18 Chip away at 19 Nairobi’s land 20 Asian food store 22 ___ instinct
23 Sia hit with the lyric “Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun tonight”
26 Put a fresh coat on 29 Covered in grease
30 Too formal 31 Female deer 33 Runs away 36 Tonic’s partner 37 Common stir-fry
green
40 French fashion
monogram 41 Rim shot drum 43 Band’s booking 44 “Relative” of Bigfoot
45 So bad that it’s good, in Gen Z slang 47 Future syrup, perhaps 49 Sentry’s question 53 “You’ve got mail” co.
54 Cognizant (of) 55 “Fingers crossed!” 59 Word before “saw” or “smoker” 61 Natural sounds that the starts of 16-, 23-, 37and 49-Across resemble 63 Great praise 64 Words per minute, for one 65 “Read ’em and ___!” 66 Country found inside Romania? 67 Commotions 68 ___ Jose
DOWN
1 Break into, digitally 2 Soothing succulent 3 Created, as yarn from wool 4 Fish eggs 5 Request for consent
6 Winner, casually
7 Go to, as a restaurant 8 Screw up 9 Craft items that roll easily? 10 Pop star Paula 11 Specifics, slangily 13 Surveillance device, for short 15 Become stone 17 Indian yogurt 21 Greek letter used to represent density 24 Prefix with “skeleton” 25 Not well 26 Dungeons & Dragons and Undertale: Abbr. 27 Ireland, in old poems 28 Drink that might come with a paper umbrella 32 Certain heart reading, for short
34 “Como ___ usted?” 35 What someone might do on a banana peel 37 Laments 38 Until now 39 Shrek, for one 42 Cloth scrap 44 Bull-riding cheer 46 Church bench 48 Carle who wrote “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
49 Off-the-wall 50 Unexciting 51 Big name in hummus 52 B-D-F or C-E-G, in music 56 Bullfight cheers 57 “Guilty” or “not guilty” 58 “Monday Night Football” channel
60 OH- or NH4+ 62 ___ Moines