Quick Crossword

Across

1 Groom like a groom, maybe 9 Is in store

15 Green getaway

16 “Crud!”

17 Beneficiaries of preferential

admission

18 Delightful

19 Texas congressman who ran for president as a Libertarian in 1988

21 Nice refusal?

22 When things just don’t click 25 Aide-__: mnemonic device 28 White wine cocktails

29 Gets stuck

32 Let go

33 Let go

34 Air freshener deliveries 37 High-speed metaphor 41 Give out

42 Colorado tributary

43 “So you admit it!”

44 “Star Wars” film subtitle 47 Classist type 48 Breath-freshening brew 50 Board game conduits 52 Storied shelf occupant 53 Lawmaker

56 Barked

59 Pregame party site

63 Tee off

64 Pavarotti classic

65 Father figure?

66 Broad Eastern cuisine category

Down

1 Harris of “thirtysomething” 2 Flying phenom

3 Eggy drink

4 Fragments

5 __ butter

6 Not very much

7 Single animal-shaped

candy?

8 “Let It Go” singer in “Frozen”

9 Mystified

10 Serious declaration

11 Is for many

12 Before you know it 13 Divided island north of Australia

14 “Don’t Rain on My Parade”

composer

20 Speaker’s pauses

22 Beast known as the zebra

giraffe

23 Rigs

24 Junk dealer in a ‘70s sitcom 26 Family nickname

27 Tot’s scrape

30 Peru panning target 31 Outset

33 Speedy

35 Nevada tourist mecca 36 Foundation pieces

38 Bee or Em

39 With it

40 Choice event

45 Prepared a bed, maybe 46 Solo pilot?

47 Swells

48 Spoke Burmese?

49 Actress Massey

51 Casual greeting

54 Perched on 55 61-Down’s dwelling

57 __ Four

58 One may be bruised 60 Challenging retort 61 Familia member

62 Word that’s sometimes an

exaggeration