DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dart around like a

hummingbird 5 Like 9-Across that

has lost its fizz 9 Dark drink

with fizz

13 Easier to write neatly on, probably

15 Like tinned

sardines

16 Las Vegas WNBA

team

17 “Drive Happy” car

rental company 18 Harvest

19 School gps. 20 *Mahalia

Jackson’s genre 23 Poem of praise 24 “Passing” actress

Thompson 25 “Friendly”

cartoon ghost 27 Abbr. between

names 29 *Colorful top with

a tropical design 32 Contributor with

deep pockets 35 Esteem

36 Layers on tall

wedding cakes 37 Orchestra __ 38 Greek storyteller who coined “sour grapes” 42 German steel city 44 Current influence

on the weather? 45 *Trial figure who can give a firsthand account 49 “__ Is a Woman”: Ariana Grande song

50 Hair gel

alternative 51 Joyous song 54 Wrinkly pup 55 Nature lovers, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are 60 Actor Guinness

62 Cathedral section 63 Passion

64 Fork prong

65 Mouse mover 66 Rational believer

67 Stiletto, for one 68 “A __ formality” 69 One-named singer from County Donegal

DOWN

1 Mark as important 2 “__ & Stitch”

3 Too worked up to relax

4 City between Phoenix and Mesa 5 Like most proms 6 In __ of

7 Word of sorrow 8 “You’re so predictable” 9 Mushroom top 10 Sea creatures with eight arms 11 Front-runner 12 Stand up for (oneself) 14 Female deer 21 Aspiring atty.’s exam

22 Unlike most proms 26 High shine

27 To the rear, at sea 28 “Cobra __”: Netflix series based on “The Karate Kid” 30 Just like ewe 31 Beret, e.g. 33 Rowing teams 34 Pass that leads to a successful basket 37 Signing-ceremony memento 39 Entered a username, say 40 Singer Yoko 41 Okra unit 43 Breastbone 44 Biblical twin 45 One who feels another’s pain 46 “That’s not true!” 47 Oregon city on the Willamette 48 Orb

52 “My stars!” 53 Match, as subjects and verbs 56 Alleviate

57 “Don’t you __ stop!?”

58 Pinkish

59 Spanish miss: Abbr.

61 Cartoon frame