Quick Crossword

Across 1 Evidence of fire

6 Phone call enders

10 Recedes to the sea

14 Piglike rhino relative

15 Move like The Blob

16 Strong wind

17 “__ you clever!”

18 Folklore meanie

19 Stan on the sax

20 Protection for extremities during slicing and dicing 23 Long-standing dispute

24 Go public with

25 Brewery kilns

29 Old-style timepieces attached

to vests

33 GI chow

34 Many a retired racehorse 35 The “O” in OAS: Abbr.

36 Least distant

40 Coming into being

42 Rude dude

43 Travel document

45 Tropical “constrictor” 46 15-season CBS drama about the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit

50 Become frantic

51 Meadowland

52 Uses a shovel

55 Looks after, as suggested by the last word of 20-, 29- and 46-Across

59 “The Thin Man” dog 62 Lacrosse targets

63 Specialized vocab

64 Null and __

65 Like much testimony

66 Word with circle or city 67 Kibbles ‘n Bits competitor 68 Agile

69 Colorful marble Down 1 Employee group

2 Curie with two Nobels

3 Speak candidly

4 Regal realms

5 Art Deco master

6 __-woogie

7 Dannon products

8 Pound who was a friend of T.S.

Eliot 9 Tea leaves reader

10 Spider’s hatching pouch 11 Main squeeze, in slang 12 Lunch menu letters

13 Utters, in slang

21 Earns lots of, as dough 22 Spoils, as a grandchild

26 Clog or loafer

27 Fork-tailed shorebird

28 Army NCO

30 Narrow opening in a cliff 31 Take the title

32 High-spirited horse

36 Sputnik letters

37 “__ Croft: Tomb Raider” 38 Top Norse god

39 Flight safety org.

41 Toting clubs for a golfer 44 MLB’s Hank Aaron, e.g., in 21

seasons

47 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta,

with “The”

48 Pitifully small

49 “Burnt” crayon color

53 “__ it, Rover!”: “Fetch!” 54 Keep a mate awake, perhaps 56 Grandson of Adam

57 One in handcuffs, for short 58 Kazan with an honorary Oscar 59 Actress Gardner

60 Sun, in Sonora

61 Bit of advice