Crossword

Today’s puzzle theme honors the 75th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America.

ACROSS

1 Some munchies 6 Asks to be excused, with “off”

10 Latin initialism on a cross

13 WWII riveter 14 Relating to body structure

16 A step up from a carport, perhaps 18 Come to terms 19 Electronic dance music genre

21 Org. that’s not lax at LAX 22 Interval

26 Space

27 German brewing surname 30 Common Korean surname 31 Extremely dry 32 Limitation-offreedom metaphor 36 Doubled, perhaps 39 Corrida figures 40 Ding-a-ling or ding-dong

42 Zilch

43 Greater N.Y. school 44 Orchestra

section 48 Chicago airport

code

49 “Golden Boy” playwright

51 Hotel amenity 52 President of Princeton, then the U.S.

55 Stride affectedly 58 Literary genre often associated with the writer concealed in

16-, 32- and 40-Across 62 One happy to

have no class? 63 Arabian, for one 64 DE Dec. setting 65 What might take

a while? 66 Fencing blades

DOWN

1 Pizza party leftovers 2 “Really” 3 Eponymous goddess of a 1987 film flop 4 Painter

Mondrian 5 Stop from

leaking 6 Sweetie, in

recent slang 7 Stop

8 Joke

9 Hawaii, e.g. 10 Apple desktop

11 A condition of maximum activity 12 Hypothetical account

15 Kate Brown is its gov. 17 Business card no.

20 Bids first 23 Considered in full

24 Tiny soup base

25 Mailed, as invites

28 “The Audacity of Hope” author 29 “I’m amused” 31 Gather wool from

33 Set ablaze 34 Female ruminant 35 Nursery item

36 First big song success for The Moody Blues 37 Positioned for ambush, as in many Westerns 38 Two-year-olds, say

41 Dessert choice 45 Like sailors on leave

46 Spread out 47 Agree

49 At the proper

moment 50 Montreal-toBoston dir. 53 RBI or ERA 54 Venerable ref. 56 Queens tennis

venue honoree 57 Where to get off 59 Paving stuff 60 “__ nothing new” 61 Nov. honoree