DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Go straight to the

top?

5 Crawling

carpenters

9 Made into a bundle 14 Sport for the

supersized 15 “Unfaithful” costar Richard 16 Join forces 17 Overindulge (someone) at birthday time 20 Warble 21 Figuratively 22 Circular power

tool

24 Tarzan player Ron 25 Tetra- times two 29 Set one’s sights

on, with “at” 31 “So long!” 34 Last-ditch gridiron

pass

36 Periodic pay 39 Nabisco snack

brand

40 And so on: abbr. 42 Avant-garde jazzman who named himself after an Egyptian god

43 Country Style

Steak Fries maker 45 “I’m Moving On”

country singer 47 Pindar work 48 Charlotte __:

creamy dessert 50 Road incline 51 Permit 52 Crumpets

companion 54 Head honcho 59 Starbucks flavor 64 Not up to par ... or, aptly, what this puzzle’s circled letters are 66 Send (to) for a

second opinion 67 Steal, for slate:

abbr. 68 Lemonlike

69 Like ogres

70 “So Sick” R&B

singer 71 Ironically, they might be even

DOWN

1 Sibilant “Yo!” 2 River to the Rhine 3 Mine, in Metz 4 Pained cry

5 Dept. concerned with rural development 6 Reuters, for one 7 Folk’s Kingston __ 8 Couch kin 9 Mobster Siegel 10 Had __: imbibed modestly 11 Longest sentence 12 Bluesy James 13 Work at it 18 Trains over the street

19 Ship storage areas 23 Designation for batteries, bonds or baseball teams 25 “I can’t believe it!” 26 Egyptian capital 27 Like many floors 28 Kate’s TV sidekick 30 Nessie and Bigfoot, by most accounts

31 Get red in the face 32 New Age composer

33 Flynn of film 35 Irate

37 Question 38 Two-masted boat 41 Robinson Crusoe, notably

44 “__ we all?” 46 Society page word 49 Pioneer Day celebrant

51 King or Bird 53 Physicians’ org. 54 Go sour

55 Draft designation 56 Some email attachments 57 Root often pickled 58 Aloha State bird 60 Germany’s von Bismarck 61 African lake in four countries 62 Cattle collection 63 Music and dance, e.g.

65 Freudian focus

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