CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Not quite round

5 Gumbo vegetable 9 Ply

14 Like every U.S.

president

15 “Coulda been a

lot worse!”

16 Romantic text

17 Fidgety

19 Gymnast Simone who won four golds in Rio

20 Carefree

21 The “I” of “The

King and I”

22 Masters

23 Characteristic of the villain in “The Fugitive”

25 “Is that it?”

27 All-in-one printer

feature

29 Actor Wallach

30 Unconscious

31 “__ goes nothing!” 32 Muse of poetry 34 Navig.

technology

35 T.S. Eliot poem,

with “The”

39 Sprite

42 Admonish

43 They’re on the

phone

47 Classical lead-in 48 Recycle bin item 49 Work on, as a

vintage auto

52 Behold in

amazement

55 Pluto’s largest

moon

56 Trip up

57 Use a wrecking

ball on

59 Ode title words 60 Metaphor in a

gambling debacle 61 Employee hours suggested by this puzzle’s circles 63 Smell or taste

64 Ancient Dead Sea

region

65 Slurpee, basically 66 Tidied, as a lawn 67 TV warrior

princess

68 Sci-fi escape

ships

DOWN

1 “Heavens!”

2 Window topper

3 Twelve-month

4 Thompson of “Switched at Birth”

5 Gift box direction 6 Genghis __

7 Watched again 8 Astound

9 Liquid poured in

honor of a deity 10 Animated

11 Holiday fireplace item

12 Ties, as a score 13 Potatoes often used for fries

18 Alpine lake

22 Island near

Sicily

24 Yet again

26 Physician,

hopefully

28 Light-sensitive

eye part

33 Great American

Ball Park player 36 Like some French

vowels

37 Commandment

verb 38 Spreadsheet

input

39 As a group

40 On a tether

41 Compelling

44 Colonnaded

entryway

45 Reviewed for

typos

46 State

assemblies

50 Skin malady

51 “__ So Unusual”: Cyndi Lauper’s debut studio album

53 Poet’s creation 54 Word with secret

or school

58 Scads

61 Supervillain

Luthor

62 In the know