Quick Crossword

Across

1 Ponzi scheme, e.g. 5 Diplomat’s specialty 9 Tire pattern 14 Word of amore 15 Worker protection org. 16 Wheel spokes, geometrically 17 “Am I supposed to take this

seriously?” 20 Catholic sacrament of confes

sion and forgiveness 21 Least healthy 22 LAX posting 23 British peer 25 “Alice” diner owner 26 Cloistered sister 27 Foursong discs, briefly 29 Cut with acid 33 Postspill carpet spot 36 Clean vigorously 38 Weed chopper 39 “Oops, thought you wouldn’t

hear that” 42 Pound sound 43 Lugged 44 Bill’s attorney general 45 __ estate 47 Estonia or Ukr., once 48 Ten, in Toulouse 49 Tuna in a sushi bar 51 Shortestshadows time 53 “Liquor not provided” letters 56 Starts to melt 60 Aged at the brewery 62 Nursery rhyme plum finder’s

boast 64 Started the pot 65 Shipping option 66 Nights of anticipatory revelry 67 Like poorly drained rock gar

dens 68 Family map 69 Word of admonition

Down

1 Suffix with land or sea 2 Insertion mark 3 Sports venue 4 Early Yucatán settler 5 Bird on a Froot Loops box 6 “Jeopardy!” contestant 7 Windy City station, on Amtrak

skeds 8 Little boys 9 Split second 10 Rub the wrong way 11 Slight advantage 12 Gets in one’s sights, with “at” 13 Cola request from a calorie

watcher 18 Blood bank quantity 19 Chinese appetizer 24 Speaker’s stand 26 Suffix with nogood 28 Cattle poker 30 In those days 31 Old King or Nat King 32 Test the weight of 33 Marquee name 34 Button on a deli scale 35 __ Romeo: sports car 36 Superiors of cpls. 37 “Heavens to Betsy!” 40 Snooping (around) 41 Jazz band instrument 46 Foamtopped coffeehouse

drinks 48 Not impossible 50 Intoxicating, as wine 52 Any Everly Brothers tune, now 53 Curtain call cry 54 Red Sea country 55 Pindar, notably 56 Did pool laps 57 “It can’t be!” 58 “Minnesota” pool legend 59 Place in order 61 Gave the onceover 63 Rowboat mover