DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
Some twitches Cicada predators Challenges for nannies Compatriot Bracelet spot “Smashing!” Official portraitist for a Mongolian leader?
“Water for Elephants” novelist Gruen 20 Sinus infection
woes
21 Sheer
22 Suddenly
become alert 23 Tone down 25 Condiment for an
Ottoman leader? 31 __ curls
34 Tends to a draft 35 Paris street 36 R&B singer
Redding 37 Hitches
38 Cartoon girl who often says “Swiper, no swiping” to a masked fox
Web
Afternoon hr. Creator of a cocky hare
Paltry stipend for a Middle Eastern leader? Scoreboard count Effect
Thrones
Alcoves
Stretched to the max
Humble abode for an Arab leader?
58 Hobby farm
measure 59 Horror or
mystery 60 Haitian friend 61 Comparison word
Jacket wool
Coat with gold leaf 1 5 10
14 15 16 17
19 39 40 41
42
45 46 50 53 55
56 62 63
DOWN
Points of view Omar of Congress Civil War nurse Barton
Automatic transmission parts? Pop art icon played by Bowie in “Basquiat”
Chip in a new pot Goes downhill fast “__ fix thx!” Complete group Keeping up (with) Impossible Burger’s lack
Peel
Lead
Cause trouble Exploits
“The Imitation Game” encryption machine
24 Some 2BR listings 26 Creeds
27 Go with the flow 28 Aces
29 Italian bread? 30 Use a scythe on 31 Hip hop’s __
Thugs-n-harmony 1 2 3
4
5
6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 18 21 23 32 33
37 38
40 41 43 44 47
48
Thing
Big name in credit cards
Huffy state High-pile carpet style
Numbered piece High spots
Raising a stink? Barely cut
“Ditto,” more formally
Poet Day-lewis who wrote the Nigel Strangeways detective
49
50 51 52
53
54
56 57 novels as Nicholas Blake
Expressed disapproval
RBI or ERA
A pop
Vibe picked up by a psychic, supposedly
Russo who plays Frigga in Marvel’s “Thor” films
Dún Laoghaire’s land
Rank above cpl. Fell