Crossword
ACROSS
1 Drone sound 5 Spicy dip 10 French flag couleur 14 Parade celebrity 15 Cotton swabs 16 Pair on a Disneyland hat 17 Verdi highlight 18 It’s prohibited on many highways 19 Vast landmass 20 Musical Christmas staple 22 Culinary student’s assent 24 Native American symbol 26 Bit of cheer? 27 22% of the U.S. Senate 30 WWII female 32 Program breaks 36 Enthusiastic 37 “Good Lord!” 39 Miscellany 40 [Uh-oh!] 41 Big name in
threshers 42 In __ of: replacing 43 City ENE of Reno 44 One of pop
music’s Papas 45 Permits 46 Takes a load off 48 Mil. officers 49 High-IQ group 50 Perilous hisser 52 In check 54 Succeeding like nobody’s business 58 Like most kosher frankfurters 62 Water sport 63 Only inanimate zodiac sign 65 Iams alternative 66 “Quite so” 67 Historical period 68 Slimming procedure, briefly 69 Shopping club 70 Swearing-in rituals 71 For fear that
DOWN
1 “Careless Whisper” pop group 2 “__ comes trouble!” 3 Eye part 4 Sunday dinner
side dish 5 Weightlifting
maneuver 6 Driving 7 “Elementary”
co-star Lucy 8 Nimble 9 Ed with seven
Emmys 10 Summer Olympics event since 1996 11 Word with back or whip 12 Historic canal 13 “Aim High ... FlyFight-Win” military org. 21 Non-neutral atom 23 Took a load off 25 Purplish hue 27 Ante, e.g. 28 Small egg 29 Takes full advantage of 31 Gravy thickener 33 From far away (perhaps very far) 34 See 51-Down 35 “The March King” 37 Unexpected 38 Susan of “L.A. Law” 47 Ottawa-to-NYC dir. 49 Prefix with ware 51 With 34-Down, really retro eating programs 53 Vague discomfort, with “the” 54 Makes a choice 55 Romance writer
Roberts 56 Grad 57 Longtime “Live!”
host 59 Author Wiesel 60 Omar of “Shooter” 61 Body part whose parts are aptly found at the bottom of this puzzle’s four longest answers 64 Plant sci.