DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Boarding area 5 Sugar substitute 11 Liberal group? 15 Straight-laced 16 How stir-fry is

often served 17 Vichyssoise need 18 *Operating room

assistants 20 Hathaway of

“Ocean’s 8”

21 “__ as directed” 22 “Dig in!”

23 __ Pueblo,

New Mexico 25 Aardvark snack 26 Dog in RCA

Victor ads 28 *Employ flowery

language 30 Native peoples of

the Arctic

31 React to yeast 32 Lightning burst 33 Number in a 10-day forecast, for short 34 Connecticut

WNBA team 35 “Argo” org. 36 *Indulgent request made by Mae West in “I’m No Angel” 41 Utter

42 Route

43 Hissy fit

46 Come to pass 49 For you and me

51 Brief tussle 52 *Cast celebration 54 Early ’90s pres.,

familiarly

55 Hasty escape 56 Education

acronym

57 Plot device? 58 Grammy category

since 1989 59 Black-__ Susan 61 *Retail event with

deep discounts 64 “To Venus and Back” singer Amos 65 Categorize 66 Walk heavily

67 Hidden obstacle

68 Jackson Hole

backdrop 69 Sax type

DOWN

1 Garmin device 2 Inverse trig function

3 Cyclist’s accessory 4 Ostrich kin 5 Underwater detector

6 Bolt holder 7 Throw wide of the cutoff man, say 8 Panoramic views 9 Mountaineering tool

10 Greek fabulist 11 Taking after 12 First name of Italian sopranos Tebaldi and Scotto 13 Wimbledon sport 14 Quick drawing 19 Vegetable that may stain a cutting board 24 Bulgaria’s capital 27 Joins the conversation 28 Viognier or Vouvray

29 Ticks by

31 Mojito liquor 34 Shifty

35 Shed tears

37 O.K. Corral brothers

38 Askew

39 Neon or freon 40 Captivate

44 “This is all more than I can handle” 45 Ruin, as plans 46 Nocturnal nestlings 47 Medium for most refrigerator art

48 Shape outlined in Instagram’s logo 49 Vague threat 50 Absolute

51 Haggis ingredient 53 Baseball stat 54 Matches 57 Rhinoceros feature 60 Use a spade 62 Court

63 Place to enjoy the kinds of pampering found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues

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