CROSSWORD NO. 2 BIG TALK
ACROSS
1 “Becoming” author
Michelle
6 Hot tub feature
9 One is full of
garbage
13 Violinist’s block
14 Sound within
“Tabernacle Choir”
16 October birthstone
17 Live and breathe
18 “Is it really
necessary?”
20 Period of intense
competition
22 Feel bad about
23 That guy
24 ___ Equis
25 Inclined (to)
28 Lacking color
31 “What’s ___ to
like?”
33 Black and Red
35 Compensation to
an intermediary
40 Capital on a fjord
41 Kerfuffle
42 Prepares to shoot a
basket
43 Panel that discusses a product
47 Highway entrance
or exit
48 Mom and pop org.?
49 Habeas corpus, for
one
51 Catch some rays
52 Dating profile
datum
55 Online convo parts
57 Sports ___ (jogging
garment) © 2021 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION.
59 What a quarterback
shouldn’t do
64 Race against the
clock
65 Fairy-tale creature who says the starts of 20-, 35-, 43- and 59-Across
68 Cookie Cobblestone ice cream brand
69 Tennis match
subdivisions
70 World’s second most populous country
71 Take a breather
72 “Get it?”
73 Chavez honored with a national holiday
DOWN
1 Miner’s
discovery
2 Word with “music”
or “voice”
3 “In your dreams!”
4 Penny-pincher
5 Pay for a poker
hand
6 Foe of the Sith
7 Demand elasticity’s
subj.
8 Chicken serving
9 Bird that might be
white
10 Topple
11 Bread served
during Passover
12 Ruses
15 “Sure, whatever!”
19 Knight’s getup
21 Like many sign
language users
25 Starting from
26 100 centavos
27 Soft mineral
29 “That isn’t true!”
30 Fund
32 Former resident of Russia’s Winter Palace
34 Progresso product
36 Gloomy
37 Italian automaker
38 Political activist
Goldman
39 “Sportscenter”
channel
44 Circus prop
45 Some play
“Valorant”
46 ___ Xtra (soft
drink)
50 Like “Romeo and
Juliet”
52 Caption on a flattering picture, perhaps
53 ___ dog (service
animal)
54 “Saturday Night Live” has 71 of them
56 Dorm rooms,
stereotypically
58 Flared dress style
60 Outdo
61 Nasty tweet’s
sentiment
62 “Who ___ is
coming?”
63 Young fellows
66 Actress Long
67 Paving goo