“Must Be ‘21 to Enter” -- happy new year to you!
ACROSS
1 “21 ___” (2003 Sean Penn film)
6 Go on and on
10 1982 movie with a 2010 sequel
14 Quick text that’s usually abbreviated even more
15 Pilot’s prefix
16 Mandlikova of tennis 17 “Raging Bull” boxer Jake La ___
18 Person, place, or thing, in grammar
19 One of many for “Game of Thrones”
20 Band whose album “No Need to Argue” features the track “Twenty One” (followed by their biggest hit, “Zombie”)
23 ___ de los Muertos
24 Largest continent
25 Trivia locale, once (and hopefully in the future)
28 “Frozen” snowman
31 “Great British Bake Off” fixtures
35 Ending for suburban
36 Rattled
38 Actress Falco of “The
Sopranos”
39 1950s news involving Charles Van Doren and “Twenty-One”
43 Primal calling
44 Holiday spread
45 Kind of wind or will
46 Opposite combatant
48 “Live!” cohost for 20+ years 49 1994 and 1997 U.S. Open winner Ernie
50 Icicle lights locale
53 “Skyfall” actor Rapace
55 Place to play Twenty-One 62 Penguins’ milieu
63 Former “Whose Line” host Carey 64 “Spunk” author Zora ___ Hurston
66 Present prefix
67 “Rondo ___ Turca” (Mozart piece)
68 Casual goodbyes
69 Calamities
70 Bigfoot’s Tibetan cousin
71 Singer with the Grammy-winning album “21”
DOWN
1 Workout facility
2 Square or cube follower
3 Short story-writer?
4 Inaudible on Zoom, maybe
5 Full of legroom
6 “Munich” star Eric
7 Florida explorer Ponce de ___
8 Caribbean island near Venezuela 9 Skeletal makeup
10 Poem with the line “Darkness there and nothing more” 11 “Mr. Robot” actor Malek
12 “The joke’s ___!”
13 Some House votes
21 “Lord of the Flies” leader
22 2014 World Cup final city
25 Irritated state
26 Half a 360
27 Neutral, blah color
29 Starting on
30 Less numerous
32 Murphy of 2021’s “Coming 2 America”
33 Former One Direction member Horan
34 Markets successfully
37 Public TV chef Ming ___
40 “Back to the Future” director Robert
41 $100 bill, in old slang
42 Fleet-footed heroine of Greek myth
47 It’s milked in Tibet
51 Truman declaration of 9/2/45
52 Country-blues guitarist Steve
54 Draw ___ on (take aim at)
55 Waxing target 56 Chauffeur-driven vehicle
57 Rice who writes of vampires
58 Ancient British Isles settler
59 “The Bridge on the River ___”
60 Hurrying, maybe
61 Airline to Jerusalem
65 Language suffix