Quick Crossword

Across

1 Concerning

6 Letters replacing a list

9 Afternoon snooze

12 Nighttime party

14 Soccer tiebreaker, perhaps

17 County on the English Channel

18 Canyon namesake of dry California winds

19 Tree with elastic wood

20 *Matches with known outcomes

22 Hi-__ TV

23 What “X” may mean

24 Music center?

25 Dennis the Menace, for one

28 Beloved

30 Monk’s title

33 Cultural setting

36 Black and blue?

39 H or O, in H2O

41 Contrasting ornaments

42 Roald Dahl title heroine

43 Submitted, as a manuscript

44 Kvetching sounds

45 Weakens

48 Give voice to

49 __ Lingus

51 Partner in a 2020 peace agreement with Isr.

53 Quite a ways away

56 *Music group’s lead violinist,

casually

61 Anger

62 Imagining

63 Photo taken backwards?

65 Marine Corps motto, briefly, and a hint to the answers to starred clues

66 Thrills

67 General on a menu 68 Fair-hiring letters

69 Flair

Down

1 Syrian leader

2 W.C. Fields persona

3 *Fast-food alternatives to burgers

4 RN workplaces

5 Sailing danger

6 Ancient mystic

7 Jazz trumpeter Jones

8 Meeting group

9 Biblical boater

10 Bee, to Opie

11 School orgs.

13 Leave

15 Name seen on one’s way to the penthouse?

16 License plates

21 Marked on a ballot

26 “La Bohème” role

27 Banana covering

29 Hunk’s pride

30 *Like half a chance

31 APR-reducing loan

32 Pt. of AAA

33 Office notice

34 “Now __ me down to sleep ... “

35 Being severely criticized

37 Numbered rds.

38 Novelist Jaffe

40 Diner check

46 Aussie parrot, briefly

47 Mournful

49 33-Down demand, perhaps

50 Luncheon end?

52 “... or __!”

54 Cartoon mermaid

55 Actress Witherspoon

56 Punch deliverer

57 March time

58 San __: Italian resort

59 Recon target

60 Sniggler’s catch

64 Map line: Abbr.