ACROSS DOWN

1 Hot topping for a cone?

5 Practical joke

9 Tricky billiard shot

14 Way off

15 Ensconced in

16 Asian dog breed

17 *Ensign

19 Rich sources of beta carotene

20 Joint

21 One of millions in New Zealand

23 Migration pattern?

24 Lose one’s shirt, say

25 *Emirate

28 Coup planners

30 Ensiform, adj.: Shaped like a ___

31 ___ Valley

34 Singer Williams who founded the Temptations

36 Split up

38 Pre-med pre-req

39 *Arbiter

41 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, e.g.

42 Came to pass

44 Bibliographer’s abbr.

45 Ceremony 46 They’re typically

older than seniors 48 One in it for the

long haul 50 *Depot

52 Put on a big smile 56 ___ Formosa (barrier island system of Portugal)

57 Figure in I Samuel 58 Issuance from an American embassy, in brief 59 Discombobulated 61 *Begin

64 Meant to be 65 “And so ...” 66 Actor Woo-shik of

“Parasite”

67 Long hauls 68 Doesn’t stay

tight 69 Hankerings 1 Scores

2 Underway

3 Steamy stuff 4 Most-grown coffee bean in the world 5 Copacetic

6 Bon ___ 7 Exemplar of neatness

8 Barely defeated 9 Launches an attack

10 Going by, in brief 11 Chevy truck since 1998

12 Staple of Trinidadian music 13 Plein-air prop 18 Kelly of morning talk

22 “Time ___ ...” 25 Nonreflective, in a way

26 Not too much 27 First part of a triple jump 29 Stole from a

burlesque act

31 With 50-Down, annual June sports event 32 It’s never out of

tune 33 Anathema to an

aesthete 35 Cut down 37 Surpass 39 What some people are dyeing to be? 40 Puckish sort 43 ___ fly 45 Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments 47 Big star, in Spain 49 If-then-___ (programming construct)

50 See 31-Down 51 Things one might pick up while entering a room 53 Church offering 54 Apply to

55 2024 Olympics

site

58 Focus of the U.S.A.F.’s Project Blue Book (19521969) 60 “Yikes!”

62 Time to remember 63 ___ white