DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chess result 5 “NASCAR on NBC” analyst Earnhardt Jr. 9 Metalworker 14 Cancún coin

15 A party to 16 Island near Maui 17 *Devoted ESPN

viewer

19 Uneasy feeling 20 Word after

box or law 21 Bullish sound? 22 Wail

23 *Spec for sandpaper or salt 27 Coll. near the

Rio Grande 29 Hard rain 30 Dance class topic 31 First name in

skin care 33 Caddie’s offering 35 Make a wrong

turn, say 36 *Quarry that supplies aggregate 40 Guys

43 Jai __

44 Quebec’s __

Peninsula 48 Racecourse

shape

50 Ready for bed,

briefly 53 Long-running

CBS series 54 *Garden walkway component 57 Malarkey 58 Pachelbel work 59 Treasury

secretary Janet 61 Sahara features 62 Last player selected for a Wimbledon ranking ... or part of each answer to a starred clue 65 Locale

66 Heck of a hike

67 Dell rival 68 Brings in

69 Actor Grant

70 Drive-__

DOWN

1 MLB rally killers 2 Researchers’ publications

3 To date

4 Klingon officer in the “Star Trek” franchise

5 ’70s hot spots 6 Strengthen, as glass

7 Seuss’ Cindy __ Who

8 Suffix with exist 9 Language student’s challenge 10 Medieval estates 11 Thankless sort 12 Preferable, gastronomically 13 Major success 18 Half a mint? 21 Contrived plot 22 Alert for an actor

24 Checkout printout 25 Unload, say 26 “Morning Edition” airer 28 Alternative to Margie

32 Noted period 34 Important 37 Square up 38 Hotel shuttles 39 Light earth tone 40 Short flight 41 Hurricane mandate responder 42 Tropical grassland 45 Sudden stop sound 46 Trailblazer 47 “C’__ la vie!” 49 Umpire’s pregame request 51 Olympic star Jackie __-Kersee 52 Deceptive 55 Wine qualities 56 Building wing 60 Challenge for an atty. wannabe 61 Tivo, for one 62 Agcy. concerned with fraud 63 Gershwin brother

64 R&B’S __ Hill