Today’s Crossword
ACROSS
1 “Dawn of the Dead”
(1978) director 7 Street, in Stuttgart 14 *Billboard entry 16 “S’pose so”
17 First of a film series
about Damien Thorn 18 Cultural environments 19 Marines NCO 20 *Upright instrument
in a bluegrass band 22 Head of Hollywood 24 Switchback feature 25 Bordeaux wine 28 Hankering
30 Mauna __ 33 19-Across boss 34 Conniption
35 “Oh, crud!”
36 *Place to land when there’s no land in sight
40 Span. miss
41 “U R 2 funny!” 42 Goosebump-inducing 43 Neptune’s realm 44 Hot state 45 Irritating inconvenience 46 Post-Manhattan Project org. 47 Selling points? 49 *LensCrafters products 53 Grouch
57 “Let’s talk in my office”
58 Word in many hymns 60 “Inka Dinka Doo” singer 61 Hollywood family name ... and what the answers to starred clues have in common
62 Son of Clytemnestra 63 Campaign ugliness DOWN 1 Official accts. 2 Sounds of amazement 3 Compressed video file format 4 Abstruse knowledge
5 Com can follow it 6 At all
7 “The Urbz: __ in the City”: video game 8 Long-odds bet 9 It’s often put on a dog
10 Litmus reddeners 11 Short itinerary? 12 Motown music 13 First word of Massachusetts’ motto
15 Pest in a swarm 21 Lazy
23 Stag, for one 25 Elegance 26 French wine valley 27 Main artery
29 It may be nervous 30 Hibernation spots 31 NBC newsman Roger
32 Come to terms 35 Specification regarding threads 37 Like many steakhouse menus 38 London bank? 39 Harvest
44 Give in 45 Unmannerly sorts, in Canadian slang 46 Turkish honorifics 48 Window box plant 49 Opposite of exo50 Part of FYI 51 Raison d’__ 52 Witnesses 54 Latvian capital 55 Taiwan-based computer giant 56 Gershwin heroine 59 Parsons of “Hidden Figures”