CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Activist Brockovich played by Julia Roberts
5 Without a cent
10 Youngsters
14 High-fat, lowcarb diet, casually
15 Merits
16 Falco of “Nurse
Jackie”
17 Backyard vegetable patch, e.g.
19 “__ Enchanted”: Anne Hathaway film
20 Surveil secretly
21 Socialized at leisure
23 Stretch the truth
25 Prefix with pod
26 Configuration before customization
34 Tiny criticism
35 24-Down soother
36 Hearing-related
37 Tennis great Arthur posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom
39 Titled
41 Mani-__
42 Hops along
happily
44 Shadowboxes
46 Pen tip
47 Element of early
internet art
50 Lifesaving skill,
for short
51 Gaming console with a gesturebased controller
52 Leafy bowlful with hard-boiled eggs
58 Bub
62 Civil rights icon
Parks
63 Brainstorming breakthroughs, and the ends of 17-, 26-, and 47-Across?
65 Opposed to
66 Bring to mind
67 Pull sharply
68 Breakfast for
dinner, say
69 Used needle and
thread
70 Concludes
DOWN
1 Cardiac readouts, briefly
2 Gather crops
3 Coy response to
a compliment
4 Drift into
dreamland
5 Actor/director
Stiller
6 Many Megan Thee Stallion songs
7 “Derry Girls” girl played by Louisa Harland
8 Celtic artwork
feature
9 North Carolina’s
Biltmore __
10 “Don’t stop
now!”
11 Unoccupied
12 Pickle herb
13 Official emblem
18 Giant computer
of the 1940s
22 Miss, in Mex.
24 Unwanted beach
souvenir
26 Once-common
storage media
27 Moral principle
28 Dog walker’s line
29 __ Bay
Buccaneers
30 Lipstick mishap
31 “Fame” star
Cara
32 Lowest point
33 Silver-tongued
34 Astronauts’ gp.
38 Dumpster firelevel blunder
40 __ a blank
43 Tentative tastes
45 Space series
genre
48 Building site
sights
49 Camp project with rubber bands
52 Make up for procrastination, perhaps
53 Sharpen, as a
blade
54 “¿Cómo __
usted?”
55 Adoration
56 Declare publicly
57 Hockey feint
59 Incline
60 Terra firma
61 Requests
64 Went first