CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Surprise with cheese and wine, perhaps

11 Craft fare

15 Traveler’s

question

16 Mother of

Judah

17 Pieces for a wannabe conductor?

18 Afterthought

preceder

19 U.S.’s leading employer of mathematicians, it’s said

20 How some

agents travel

22 What looks

can’t do?

25 Wind

26 Arranges

30 Took off

32 Give false

hope

33 __ wedge: golf club with maximum loft

35 Evil

37 Sunday

morning server

38 Blank spaces

41 Underwater

beginnings

42 First-aid

product prefix

44 Cone’s

counterpart

45 Long and hard,

as a stare

47 Trig calculation

49 Metaphors for

high esteem 51 Home of the 75-feet-tall Golden Driller statue

53 Controversial late Russian painter Glazunov

54 Tiger, perhaps

57 Only team with a gold at every Summer Olympics: Abbr.

60 Bush advisor

61 Weather record

65 Lumberjack

66 Cleaning

product claim

67 Lawn care

brand

68 Corridor

DOWN

1 Leg, slangily

2 Pressing need?

3 Mulder and Scully, briefly

4 Fine-tuned

5 “The Fresh Prince of __-Air”

6 NFL passing stat

7 Ear-piercing

8 New Jersey public university with a campus in China

9 Swedish company that invented Bluetooth

10 Mortise mate

11 Shut out

12 Place for pets at an airport 13 Right way? 14 “Yay!”

21 __ pal

23 Role model

24 Like some

probes

26 Blighted area

27 Dwarf planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

28 “Give me

that!”

29 Get past

31 Online flame

thrower?

34 Swiss cultural

city 36 2019 and 2020 Grammys host, or what she plays

39 Get time off?

40 Maker

marketplace

43 Not yet

delivered

46 Knickknack

stand

48 Director Roth

50 Signs of

repetition

52 Hawk tickets 54 Q.E.D. part

55 Amorous

letters

56 Trees with split-resistant wood

58 Squandered

59 Parks of

Alabama

62 Words with bit

and way

63 Plant activity:

Abbr.

64 Word that sounds like its last letter