CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Pull a pre-exam all-nighter

5 High-five sound

9 Hamster homes

14 Word in a bailiff’s order

15 Comics possum

16 Seashore recess

17 Mail-routing abbr.

18 How some close NFL games are won

19 Black, in Bordeaux

20 Strategy with delaying tactics

23 There’s no winner in one

24 Defense org.?

25 Enticed

27 Rental industry with units for extra belongings

32 Grabbed a bite

33 Loafer or moc

34 Outlying communities

37 Brown shades

39 Push in some chips

41 Fab Four first name

42 “Jeepers!”

45 Agrees quietly

48 Capote nickname

49 Household gathering to discuss something

52 Pancake flipper

54 Not within walking distance

55 Ab neighbor

56 Hotel accommodations for couples, and a hint to both parts of 20-, 27- and 49-Across

62 Dog collar dangler

64 When many start lunch

65 Slender wind

66 Eat away at

67 Lump of dirt

68 Bread with hummus

69 Sensitive skin spots

70 Cooped cluckers

71 Place to hold a snifter

DOWN

1 Stick in one’s __

2 “Lovely” musical meter maid

3 Piedmont wine center

4 __ telepathy

5 Veggie favored by Popeye

6 Like epic novels

7 Super-excited

8 Idaho product

9 HBO-owned broadcaster

10 “It’s __-brainer!”

11 Beautiful people, as a group

12 Like a fogenshrouded cemetery

13 Jouster’s mount

21 Sacred Nile bird

22 Nothing more than

26 Scrolling PC key

27 Frisks, with “down”

28 Salt Lake City’s state

29 Philanthropist

30 Get all blubbery

31 So, so small

35 Severely overcook

36 Fake coin

38 Couch or bench

40 Quarterback Brady

43 Erasure marks

44 Big Island port

46 Comes to the aid of

47 Scorch

50 Cape Canaveral event

51 Bunches of Brownies

52 Seekers of intel

53 Martinez with three Cy Youngs

57 Tree trunk

58 Minnesota’s state bird

59 Last bio

60 Bit of dust in a sunbeam

61 Tailor’s line

63 Drink suffix