DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Not quite round 5 Gumbo vegetable 9 Ply

14 Like every U.S. president 15 “Coulda been a lot worse!” 16 Romantic text 17 Fidgety 19 Gymnast Simone who won four golds in Rio 20 Carefree

21 The “I” of “The King and I” 22 Masters 23 Characteristic of the villain in “The Fugitive” 25 “Is that it?” 27 All-in-one printer feature 29 Actor Wallach 30 Unconscious 31 “__ goes nothing!” 32 Muse of poetry 34 Navig. technology 35 T.S. Eliot poem,

with “The” 39 Sprite 42 Admonish 43 They’re on the

phone 47 Classical lead-in 48 Recycle bin

item

49 Work on, as a

vintage auto 52 Behold in

amazement 55 Pluto’s largest

moon

56 Trip up

57 Use a wrecking

ball on

59 Ode title words 60 Metaphor in a gambling debacle 61 Employee hours suggested by this puzzle’s circles

63 Smell or taste 64 Ancient Dead

Sea region 65 Slurpee,

basically 66 Tidied, as a

lawn

67 TV warrior

princess 68 Sci-fi escape

ships

DOWN

1 “Heavens!” 2 Window topper 3 Twelve-month 4 Thompson of “Switched at Birth”

5 Gift box direction 6 Genghis __ 7 Watched again 8 Astound 9 Liquid poured in honor of a deity 10 Animated 11 Holiday fireplace item 12 Ties, as a score 13 Potatoes often used for fries 18 Alpine lake 22 Island near Sicily 24 Yet again 26 Physician,

hopefully 28 Light-sensitive eye part 33 Great American Ball Park player 36 Like some

French vowels 37 Commandment

verb 38 Spreadsheet

input

39 As a group 40 On a tether 41 Compelling 44 Colonnaded

entryway 45 Reviewed for

typos

46 State

assemblies 50 Skin malady 51 “__ So Unusual”: Cyndi Lauper’s debut studio album

53 Poet’s creation 54 Word with

secret or school 58 Scads 61 Supervillain

Luthor

62 In the know

By Roger and Kathy Wienberg © 2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.