DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Nurse Barton 6 Work with a libretto 11 Capture 14 Spring for a drink?

15 Piece of info 16 “What __ the odds?”

17 It may require a permission slip 19 “Narcos” org. 20 First encounter in a romcom 21 Open, as a gate latch

23 Pigs out (on), briefly 24 Believer’s suffix 25 General sense 27 Nearly one-third of Africa 31 Roadside business 34 Decorating job on “Cake Boss” 35 Coin-op gas station machine output 36 Grand-scale production 37 Extra feature 39 “And your point is?” 40 Drumstick 41 Guys-only party 42 Let up 43 Gathering with

much networking 47 Neutral shade 48 __Clean: stain

remover 49 Tarzan raiser 52 Razor sharpener 54 Time-out

56 Seek the

affections of 57 Table with columns, and what literally can be found in 17-, 27and 43-Across 60 Rock concert need 61 Angel who directs Satan to Earth in “Paradise Lost” 62 Speak formally 63 “__-haw!” 64 Diver’s gem 65 Renoir subjects

DOWN

1 Pink drink, for short 2 Tied, as sneakers 3 Volcanic particles 4 Real hoot 5 Hardly gregarious 6 One-named folk singer

7 Make car-friendly 8 Saison that starts in juin 9 Diamond score 10 Radio component 11 Instances of rotten luck 12 Carpet calculation 13 PRNDL selection 18 Like rainforests 22 Turndowns 25 Tex-Mex snack 26 Genesis place 27 Jiffy

28 Blue __ Mountains 29 Prepare to sing an anthem 30 Stepped (on) 31 “Alice” diner 32 Oil org. 33 Metaphor for a precarious course 37 Surmounting 38 Bewildered state 39 Granola bar morsel 41 Makes more powerful 42 Co-host of the sports radio show “Boomer and Gio” 44 Chinese chairman 45 Last words of the Pledge of Allegiance 46 Deleted, with “out”

49 In the future 50 Golfer Calvin 51 Some deco collectibles 52 Persuade

53 Big volume 54 Stein filler

55 By way of, briefly 58 Register opening? 59 River inlet

By Roland Huget © 2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.