Today’s puzzle theme honors the 75th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America.

ACROSS

1 Some munchies 6 Asks to be excused, with “off”

10 Latin initialism on

a cross

13 WWII riveter 14 Relating to body

structure

16 A step up from a

carport, perhaps 18 Come to terms 19 Electronic dance

music genre 21 Org. thatʼs not lax

at LAX

22 Interval

26 Space

27 German brewing

surname 30 Common Korean

surname 31 Extremely dry 32 Limitationof-freedom metaphor 36 Doubled,

perhaps 39 Corrida figures 40 Ding-a-ling or

ding-dong

42 Zilch

43 Greater N.Y.

school 44 Orchestra section 48 Chicago airport

code

49 “Golden Boy”

playwright 51 Hotel amenity 52 President of Princeton, then the U.S.

55 Stride affectedly 58 Literary genre often associated with the writer concealed in 16-, 32- and 40-Across

62 One happy to

have no class? 63 Arabian, for one 64 DE Dec. setting 65 What might take

a while? 66 Fencing blades

DOWN

1 Pizza party

leftovers 2 “Really” 3 Eponymous goddess of a 1987 film flop 4 Painter Mondrian 5 Stop from

leaking

6 Sweetie, in

recent slang 7 Stop

8 Joke

9 Hawaii, e.g. 10 Apple desktop 11 A condition of

maximum activity 12 Hypothetical

account

15 Kate Brown is its

gov.

17 Business card

no.

20 Bids first 23 Considered in full 24 Tiny soup base 25 Mailed, as invites 28 “The Audacity of

Hope” author 29 “Iʼm amused” 31 Gather wool from 33 Set ablaze 34 Female ruminant 35 Nursery item 36 First big song success for The Moody Blues 37 Positioned for ambush, as in many Westerns 38 Two-year-olds,

say

41 Dessert choice 45 Like sailors on

leave

46 Spread out 47 Agree

49 At the proper

moment 50 Montreal-toBoston dir. 53 RBI or ERA 54 Venerable ref. 56 Queens tennis

venue honoree 57 Where to get off 59 Paving stuff 60 “__ nothing new” 61 Nov. honoree