DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Persepolis ruins

locale

5 Prickly plants 10 Former Supreme

Court first name 14 iPod model 15 Garden nuisance 16 Protection org.

since 1970 17 Lions in the city? 19 Slangy sweeties 20 Pulitzer- winning

author Lurie 21 Spring

23 Conan’s network 24 Willamette River

capital

25 Fish with

experience? 27 UFO fliers,

presumably

28 __ bath

30 Luke and Leia’s

mother

31 Show- offs

35 Pats gently 36 Bees behind

bars?

38 Inland Asian

sea

40 Fixture in some no- parking zones

41 Starr man

43 One kept on a child at the pool

44 Hole goal 47 Whales on the

run?

51 GE rival

53 “Alas!”

prompter 54 Seafarers

55 USC athlete 56 Novel ending? 58 Wolves with a

clean lair? 60 Miranda __ of

“Homeland” 61 Dutch cheeses 62 Czech track

legend Zátopek 63 Zen riddle

64 “Building a Mystery” singer McLachlan 65 Cook of comedy

DOWN

1 If

2 Scold harshly 3 Wile E. Coyote weapons

4 White __

5 Bo’s’n boss 6 Loan fig.

7 Put on ice 8 Helped through a tough time, with “over” 9 Brainstorming session output 10 Director Reiner 11 Paper with Money and Life sections 12 Awesome, slangily 13 Bothers

18 Public town park 22 Narc’s find

25 “Funny thing is ...”

26 “I __ thought of that”

29 Home to the Ogden Raptors of MiLB

31 Hägar the Horrible’s wife 32 Med. condition with repetitive behavior 33 Hurt in a ring 34 Take out, as a

vampire 36 Italian bacon 37 Like difficult

push- ups

38 “Do you and I need to clear the air?” 39 Dish with

arborio rice 42 Withdraw, with

“out” 44 __ party

45 Aleve rival 46 Really get to 48 Wasp nest sites 49 Red- carpet

brand

50 NBA great Robertson nicknamed

“The Big O” 52 Minibike kin 55 Derriere

57 Long time to

wait, facetiously 59 Thurman in

films

By Kevin Christian © 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.