DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Staples buys 4 Pooh-pooh, with “at” 9 Author Stieg Larsson, for one 14 Deduction cry 15 “While I’ve got your attention ...” 16 Big name in seating 17 Zip on a field 18 Passion for quilt filling? 20 Fall cause 22 Not heard before 23 1945 summit site 24 Contest among bank customers? 27 __ Road Ensemble, group initiated by Yo-Yo Ma 29 Portaged craft 30 Needing no Rx 32 Stick in a hall 33 “The buck stops here” president 36 Baloney 38 Segment of a clogging contest? 41 Jokhang Temple city 42 Words spoken with one’s hand raised 43 Corp. bailed out in 2008 44 Auction set 46 Made hands of 49 Swatting target 51 Airline passenger’s arrival malady? 55 Grass unit 57 Yield from una mina 58 Laser-cut, perhaps 59 Female observer? 62 __ jump 63 Unexpressed 64 Pulitzer poet Conrad __ 65 Work hard (for) 66 Aboveboard 67 Handle 68 Ajar, in verse

DOWN

1 Suit part 2 Former French president 3 DNA sample source 4 Sound with tears 5 Pitcher’s surprise 6 Kitchen brand 7 Mufti issuance 8 “Here’s the scoop” letters 9 Tokyo-based game company 10 They’re thin at budget motels 11 Email adornment 12 Weakened, as currency 13 Legal add-on 19 Siberian freeze-out? 21 Mottled equines 25 Routine 26 Crichton novel set in Africa 28 Longboat in Florida, e.g. 31 Singled out 34 Mazda two-seater 35 Hexapod worker 37 Cause of a blinking “12:00” 38 Tibia 39 Emulate a little brother, maybe 40 Ham’s creation 41 Tarry 45 Author Robert __ Butler 47 Unhands 48 Affix to a corkboard 50 Castmate of Doohan and Nimoy 52 “Cross my heart!” 53 Male on a pond 54 View from Schönburg Castle 56 Gossip 59 Diminutive, diminutively 60 Main delivery 61 Cold-sounding product prefix

By Chuck Deodene © 2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.