DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Bird’s crop 5 Pols with a donkey symbol 9 Specialized, committee-wise 14 Operate with a beam 15 Natural burn soother

16 Set of beliefs

17 “__ That a Shame” 18 “Hold your horses!” 19 Cybercommerce 20 *Begin preparing an evening meal 23 Nov. 11 honoree 24 Capital of Minn. 25 Taxi driver 27 Many a ’50s pompadour sporter 30 Catastrophic 2017 hurricane 33 “The fresh air is delightful!” 36 Suffix with Jumbo 37 Spreads apart, as

one’s fingers 39 Hunt like a cat 41 Internet connectivity delay 43 “The Waste Land”

poet T.S. 44 Tennis great

Gibson

46 Starlet’s goal 48 Org. with Bulls

and Bucks 49 Bonkers

50 Tart plant stalk diced for pie filling 53 A:Z::alpha:__ 55 Originate (from) 59 Arctic toymaker 61 Two-couple outings ... and what the answers to starred clues are? 64 Civilian attire 66 Wordsmith

Webster

67 Hertz fleet 68 Spring for a meal 69 Fish in some cat

food

70 Otherwise 71 Oozes 72 “Don’t go” 73 Actress Cannon DOWN 1 Yearbook section 2 Grammy winner Bonnie

3 “It’s __”: “No problem” 4 Counter-wiping aid 5 Procrastinator 6 Pre-college, briefly 7 Cow’s hurdle, in rhyme 8 Mystical gathering 9 Severe, as criticism

10 “__ & the Women”: 2000 Gere film 11 *Downpour 12 “Garfield” dog 13 Future stallion 21 Slowpoke in a shell

22 Body parts that may be pierced 26 List of charges 28 Big name in ISPs 29 Chaotic mess 31 “Butt out,” for short 32 Dog in old whodunits 33 “C’mon, be __!”: “Little help, please!” 34 Woody’s son 35 *Steaming morning mugful 38 Looked closely 40 “To __ it may concern”

42 Yak it up 45 2012 Affleck thriller 47 Seized the opportunity 51 Favorite hangouts 52 Prepared (oneself), as for a jolt 54 Does film splicing, say 56 Lombardy’s land 57 Vice __ 58 German steel town 59 Rescue squad VIPs

60 Light, to a moth 62 Match in a ring 63 Singer Del Rey 65 Bojangles’ dance genre