CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Shipwreck signal 4 Stan of Marvel Comics 7 Catch in a trap 12 Time period 13 Off-roader’s purchase, for short

14 Quest for intel 15 *Instant in which emotional decisions are made

18 Middle-earth

menace

19 Female surfer

20 Times to

remember

21 Got a lift, in a way 23 Popular mints

25 Tea container

27 Gradually come to

be

31 Wander about

33 Pasture

35 Where one may be taken to be reprimanded

36 Verb in a recipe 37 Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be?

40 Tennis court

divider

41 Family gathering

attendee

43 Pacific Coast st. 44 Loch with a

legend

45 Ties to a post

48 Rene of “Get

Shorty”

50 Show flexibility 52 Dampen, as

sound

55 Help in a bad

way?

58 Coral named for

its shape 60 Wheaton who played himself on “The Big Bang Theory”

61 *Defeat soundly 64 More despicable 65 Talk trash to

66 Cork’s country 67 Cowboy singer

Gene

68 Uneaten morsel 69 Ship in Genesis

DOWN

1 *Flaky type

2 Cheerios grain

3 Came down in flakes

4 Plastering strip 5 Value system

6 Tied, as a score 7 “Seats all taken” sign

8 Archrivals 9 Asian laptop brand 10 Barrett of gossip 11 Tolkien tree race 12 Macedonian neighbor 15 MLB’s Astros, on scoreboards

16 “Fiddle-__!”

17 Trifling

22 Battering __

24 Spot on the tube 26 Vote of support 28 *Employment

field

29 Keats works

30 Vets’ concerns

31 Rave’s partner

32 Dog in the comics 34 Brouhaha

37 Owner’s

document

38 Blunder 39 Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. __

42 Idle talk

44 Bounced-check

letters

46 Reckless

47 Racer’s bathing

suit

49 Naturally brewed beverage 51 Animal with a snout

53 Vitality

54 Santa helper

55 Palindromic pop

group

56 Steady guy

57 Toward sunrise 59 Speedy

62 “Do or do not. There is no __”: Yoda

63 Title for Paul or

Ringo