DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Render

inconceivable? 5 Carl who composed “Carmina Burana”

9 Itching for action 14 Hamlet’s first

choice

15 Sound from a fan 16 River of

Champagne 17 U.N. reps 18 Purported passion promoter 20 One-named singer with the #1 hit “Royals” 22 Prevent 23 “Frontline” airer 24 Seriously mired 26 Big wheel 28 Scholar

29 Lasted longer

than

32 Sound from a fan 33 Draft letters 34 Despot who raced in the 67 Olympics

35 __ station 38 Highway reading 41 Bread or liquor 42 PDQ

44 Word with cake

or flake 45 Prescribed meds 47 “Rigoletto” composer Verdi

49 86 and 99 53 Turntable

needles

54 Wells islander

played by Brando 56 Creator of Finch

and Radley 57 France dance 59 Medal-worthy

quality 60 Boundary between the illuminated and darkened part of the moon, in astronomy 63 Ballet move

64 T. rex et al. 65 Wrapped garment 66 Villain’s welcome 67 __ Curry, first unanimous NBA MVP

68 “By that reasoning ...” 69 Rectangular paving stone

DOWN

1 Cornfield array 2 Cal Poly city 3 Shortened,

shortened 4 Affectionate

assent 5 Hogwarts mail

carrier

6 __ Island

7 What can be drawn using the only V’s, representing vertices, in this puzzle’s grid

8 Worry

9 Not bothered by

conscience 10 “Unforgettable”

Cole

11 Stumble on 12 Condescension 13 Pines 19 See 7-Down 21 Ferber and a Dame

25 Like a flag featuring a 19-Down 27 Arabic “son of” 30 Kick __ fuss 31 Unknown John 35 Order of silence 36 “In my view ...” 37 Semisweet American white wine

39 Alibi problem 40 Sarah Palin, e.g., briefly 43 Humanities subj. 46 Six-winged angels, in Isaiah 48 Tolkien language 50 Nervous one? 51 I Ching adherent, perhaps

52 Least tentative 55 Corp. shuffle 56 Classic Fords 58 Emit coherent light

61 Messy locks 62 Carnival site

By Mike Buckley © 2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.