CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 “Nope”

5 Pointers

9 City in northwest Missouri, informally

14 Kind

15 Words after count

or sleep

16 Sports complex

17 *”Let me enjoy my

guilty pleasures!”

19 Shouts

20 Website revenue

source

21 Director Craven

23 Chemical in potent drain cleaners

24 Ankle-length skirt

26 PlayStation

maker

28 Contributes

32 Ready to go trickor-treating, say

36 Figure of speech

37 Ginger __

38 Love who co-hosted “The Real”

39 Pixar film about a

jazz pianist

40 Dance club compilation, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are

42 Little cut

43 Idris of “The Wire”

44 “Insecure” star

Issa

45 GPS suggestion

46 Elite athletes

48 Moderate gallop

49 Website with

tutorials

50 Overly confident

52 JFK successor

54 Chicken __ king

56 “Suppose so”

61 Minestrone and

chowder 63 *”Feelin’ fine!”

65 Allow to enter

66 Italian bubbly

67 Apollo project

destination

68 Uses a keyboard

69 Sunbeams

70 Humble reply to a

compliment

DOWN 1

Organic certifying gp.

2 Parka feature

3 Footed vases

4 URL intro

5 Bird on Froot Loops boxes

6 Handy list in the back of a book

7 Swine

8 Hearty bowlful

9 Gives permission

10 Three, in Italian 11 *Fruity treat often dusted with powdered sugar

12 “This is __ a test”

13 Loosen (up)

18 Foxx who voices the pianist in 39-Across

22 English county on

the North Sea

25 11-Down eater’s

dismayed cry

27 Country singer

Willie

28 Gone fishing, say

29 Dryly humorous

30 *Move that captures two checkers

31 Frolic in the pool

33 “Always Be My Maybe” actress/ writer Wong 34 Bring together

35 Peter, the pickled-pepper picker

40 Feature of some Southern accents

41 Pickle container

45 Threw a tantrum

47 Browns lightly

48 Mayfield of R&B

51 A bit foggy

52 Future atty.’s

exam

53 __ language

55 Slightly open

57 Sleeveless top,

for short

58 Pretzel shape

59 Stench

60 Pt. of a B’way

address

62 __ chart

64 Mex. neighbor