CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Warning sound from a rattlesnake

5 Electrical

pioneer Nikola

10 Certain partner

14 “Hello... hello...

hello...,” e.g.

15 To no __: without

success

16 Each, informally

17 Sign gas

18 Paper size longer

than letter

19 Cab

20 *Pink flower native to eastern North America

23 Leftover

24 Sound system

27 Eyes a bull’s-eye,

say

30 Chapel

centerpiece

32 U.K. lawmakers

35 *Like a game that involves evasive subterfuge

39 Oodles

41 Chutney fruit

42 Chief Valhalla

god

43 *Migratory

honker

46 WNW’s opposite

47 Reptile in the

Chinese zodiac

48 __-esteem

50 Pays for

everyone

53 Reading lights

57 Solve a mystery, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues

61 “Veep” actress

Chlumsky

64 Latest craze

65 Tehran’s land

66 See 28-Down

67 Campaign

button word 68 Guitarist

Lofgren

69 Deal (with)

70 Searches for

71 Checkers or

chess

DOWN 1

From this point forward

2 Climbing tool for

frozen surfaces

3 Low on funds

4 Mexican state bordering Arizona

5 Anklebones

6 Level

7 Very long story

8 Perjurers

9 Parcel out

10 ABBA hit with the line “I was defeated, you won the war”

11 Craft beer letters

12 “Sour grapes”

critter

13 Prefix with

-logue

21 Not of the clergy

22 Tailor’s line

25 Piano piece

26 Welcome sight in

the desert

28 With 66-Across, fairy-tale character whose bed was too soft

29 Male deer

31 Actress Russo

32 Apple computers

33 Garden growth

34 Underwater

detector

36 “It’s __-win

situation”

37 Private aid gps.

38 Prescribed

amount 40 Friendly send-off

44 Cherished

45 Fashion

monthly

49 Not back-to-back

with

51 Makes less

unruly

52 Bathroom

accessory

54 Tennis star

Sharapova

55 Sacred song

56 Smell, for one

58 Joint between the foot and the hip

59 Clock sound

60 Bowlers and

berets

61 Start of the

alphabet song

62 “The Matrix”

hero

63 Quick snooze