CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Keebler cracker

6 Shoots the breeze 11 E, in Morse code 14 Parts of plots

15 Kama __

16 Bruin great Bobby 17 *Sports bookie’s

figure

19 Action film gun 20 Caspian Sea

feeder

21 Where work

may pile up

23 Criticized unfairly,

in slang

27 Stand in a studio 29 Get away from 30 Inoffensive

33 “Tell It Like It Is”

crooner __ Neville 34 Suffix with billion 35 Fashionable way

to arrive?

36 “What a pity”

37 *R&D setting

40 Meadow

41 Four-stringed instruments, typically

43 Weighty volume 44 Buck the system 46 Passé street corner convenience

48 As __: generally 49 Location

50 Online player,

briefly

52 Taj __

54 Foundry waste

55 Good Grips

gadget brand

56 End of a close race ... and what the last part of the answers to starred clues can literally be 63 “Don’t Bring Me

Down” rock gp. 64 Singer Cyrus

65 Finnish tech giant 66 Hanoi holiday

67 Green vehicles,

for short

68 Belgian treaty city

DOWN

1 Cook quickly

2 Prefix with logical 3 __ Lanka

4 Top songs set

5 Stellar scholar

6 D.C. network

7 Sling

8 Gobbled up

9 Carol syllable

10 Extreme cruelty 11 *Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde,” e.g. 12 Rice-shaped pasta

13 Froot Loops shelfmate

18 B’way sellout sign 22 Jodie Foster

title role

23 Intensify

24 “Seward’s Folly”

purchase

25 *Marksmanship

match

26 Tokyo, long ago 27 “Copperhead Road” singer Steve

28 Nevada’s __ 51

30 Blackjack

request

31 Remington played

by Brosnan

32 Driveway coating 34 In unison 38 English school

since 1440

39 Big talk

42 Animal welfare

gp.

45 Pitching stat

47 “I need a hand” 50 Tricks

51 Half-__: coffee

compromise

52 Bubbly brand

53 Wheel connector 54 Ending for young

and old alike? 57 Hyphenated Minute Maid brand

58 Schnozz

extension?

59 Japanese drama 60 ’50s prez

61 Sermon subject 62 Boater or bowler