Today’s Crossword
ACROSS
1 Not quite round 5 Gumbo vegetable
9 Ply
14 Like every U.S.
president
15 “Coulda been a lot
worse!”
16 Romantic text 17 Fidgety
19 Gymnast Simone who
won four golds in Rio 20 Carefree
21 The “I” of “The King
and I”
22 Masters 23 Characteristic of the villain in “The Fugitive”
25 “Is that it?” 27 All-in-one printer feature 29 Actor Wallach 30 Unconscious
31 “__ goes nothing!” 32 Muse of poetry 34 Navig. technology 35 T.S. Eliot poem, with “The” 39 Sprite 42 Admonish 43 They’re on the phone 47 Classical lead-in 48 Recycle bin item 49 Work on, as a vintage auto 52 Behold in amazement 55 Pluto’s largest moon 56 Trip up
57 Use a wrecking ball on
59 Ode title words 60 Metaphor in a gambling debacle 61 Employee hours suggested by this puzzle’s circles 63 Smell or taste 64 Ancient Dead Sea region 65 Slurpee, basically 66 Tidied, as a lawn 67 TV warrior princess 68 Sci-fi escape ships
DOWN 1 “Heavens!” 2 Window topper 3 Twelve-month 4 Thompson of “Switched at Birth”
5 Gift box direction 6 Genghis __ 7 Watched again 8 Astound 9 Liquid poured in honor of a deity 10 Animated 11 Holiday fireplace item
12 Ties, as a score 13 Potatoes often used for fries 18 Alpine lake 22 Island near Sicily 24 Yet again 26 Physician, hopefully 28 Light-sensitive eye part
33 Great American Ball Park player 36 Like some French vowels 37 Commandment verb 38 Spreadsheet input 39 As a group
40 On a tether 41 Compelling 44 Colonnaded entryway 45 Reviewed for typos 46 State assemblies 50 Skin malady
51 “__ So Unusual”: Cyndi Lauper’s debut studio album 53 Poet’s creation 54 Word with secret or school
58 Scads 61 Supervillain Luthor
62 In the know