Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols

ACROSS 1 Parent of 66-Across 11 Jobs creation 15 As it happens 16 It can tide you

over 17 Exercise regimen 18 Ending to avoid? 19 Commemorative

pillar 20 Accords 22 Piccadilly Circus

statue 25 Anesthetizes 26 Ramshackle 30 Refuse 31 Link letters 32 Thin feathered

flier 34 Pop music

sleepyhead 36 Youngest player to join the 600-HR club 38 Snowmen? 40 Trade staple 41 Sore __ 43 Teeth in Torino 45 ICU VIPs 46 Transplant, in a

way 48 Iconic Ansel Adams photograph shot in Hernandez, New Mexico 50 Preserves flavor 52 Part of a Simon & Garfunkel quartet? 53 Railroad worker 55 Pass a second

time 59 Custom 60 Olympics event

since 2000 63 Seraph, to

Sylvie 64 “The Decay of

Lying” author 65 Swamp thing 66 Child of

1-Across DOWN 1 Contractors’

proposals 2 Body lang. 3 French wheel 4 See 6-Down 5 Region including

Napa 6 With 4-Down, Fred Gipson book that won a 1957 Newbery Honor 7 Tribe that met with Lewis and Clark in 1804 8 1987 Masters

champ Larry 9 Polish, in a way 23 Country music

venue 24 Brought into

being 26 Part of DINK 27 Likely to be off 28 A short distance 29 Venerated

symbol 33 Skid row figures 35 Ultimatum

end 57 Time-half link 58 Outer cover 61 __ du pays:

homesickness 62 Historic

leader?