Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Soft side? 5 Recipient of a
half-hearted gift? 8 “I’m all __” 12 Encouraging start 13 Square footage 15 Understood 16 “Alert: Yo-Yo’s
here!”?
19 Peak near Catania 20 Book end,
perhaps
21 Breezy goodbye 23 Game, __, match 24 Machines used on
a peacock farm? 28 Caribbean island
with the Pitons 31 Tylenol target 32 Piggy bank
addition
33 __ bunny 36 Performed a saut
de chat, e.g. 39 Director Lee 40 Staple legumes, or parsed differently, what 16- and 24-Across did for 51- and 63-Across
42 Like some larb 43 Maestro Zubin 45 Tit for tat, maybe 46 Ages and ages 47 Reusable 5-Down 49 Goes deep 51 Really hot person
in the cockpit? 55 Prof’s email ender 56 Philip Marlowe
genre
57 Story with a
lesson 61 Ruckuses 63 Wooden model of
an Italian city? 66 Uncomfortable
sensation 67 Uncomfortable
sensation
68 Ilsa __: “Casablanca” heroine
69 Arthur who authored “A Hard Road to Glory” 70 Dark side of a
notable pair 71 Chocolate brand owned by Berkshire Hathaway
DOWN
1 Question of
permission
2 So much
3 Poker variety 4 “Live it up!” 5 Groceries carrier 6 To, the contrary 7 “Go get it,” to a
dog
8 Just scrape (out) 9 Picnic snack that appears to have picnic invaders
10 Not allow to
expire
11 Goes after a fly 14 Tahiti sweetie 17 Board VIP 18 Org. with sponsored Medicare plans 22 Australian gems 25 Many a “Veep”
role
26 Say “neener
neener,” say 27 Deception 28 Deception 29 Vocal quality 30 Small salad and half a sandwich, say
34 Pig pad 35 Actress Hedren 37 Window section 38 Lob
40 Exempli gratia,
e.g.
41 Relax
44 Ore-Ida offering 46 Requires
48 Son of Seth 50 Sch. with a Twin
Cities campus 51 Marshall
McLuhan focus 52 Uses Photoshop 53 Bhagavad-__ 54 A bit steep 58 Word with blood
or moon
59 Rural road 60 Finishes 62 Pronoun option 64 Flat-iron brand 65 2023 role for Ryan, Simu, Kingsley, and others