DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Moussaka ingredient

5 Harmonious church groups

11 Parachute necessity

15 Cookie with a Java

Chip flavor 16 Solitary sort

17 Mind

18 Wolverine, for one

19 Esoteric information

20 A few

21 EMIT?

24 Not quite aligned

26 Inventor who said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”

29 Slugger Judge who was AP Athlete of the Year in 2022

30 Ankle- length attire

34 Mouthwash brand

35 Feudal estate

36 Selena or Selena Gomez

38 Katniss Everdeen portrayer, to fans

39 LOOP?

42 Overhang

43 Midwestern Native

44 Five- time Olympic gold- medal swimmer Ian

47 Comes down hard?

51 “Just a Geek” memoirist Wheaton

52 SPOT?

57 Tate Modern filler

58 Verdi aria that translates to “It was you”

60 Lisa Halaby’s royal name

61 Sunlit lobbies 63 RAW?

66 Intense

67 Some green sauces

68 Senate position

69 Divisions in an outdated atlas: Abbr.

70 Plumes

71 Exxon constituents?

DOWN

1 Bagel topping

2 Branch

3 Vegetarian

4 Pot sweetener

5 Root words?

6 Cilantro, e. g.

7 Wolf of the sea 8 Apple since 1998

9 Curling spot

10 Washington, but not Washington, D. C.

11 Life itself, to a crepehanger

12 Recital piece for a double- reed woodwind

13 “Collapse Into Now” band

14 Go green, perhaps

22 Kylo __: “The Last Jedi” villain

23 Picks out, for short

24 Lummox

25 Just

27 Iridescent gem

28 Not old

30 Spice cookie spice

31 QB stat

32 Roman dozen

33 Accommodating places

36 Flatten

37 Shocked

40 Squiggly baby, to a sitter

41 Radio wave-emitting star

44 Dances provocatively

45 New faces in the staff lounge

46 “Last Week Tonight” host John

48 Swab target

49 Emergency priority system

50 Unblinking looks

53 __ Miami CF

54 Self- composure

55 Friendly horn sounds

56 “... but I could be wrong”

59 Heavy weights

62 Variety

64 Lines at the register?

65 Donkey