Today’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 *Top selection

9 Bring pleasure (to) 15 Horror film line that usually gets its speaker in trouble 16 With conviction 17 Final Yahtzee

roll, e.g.

18 Defies

19 Omaha-to-Milwaukee dir. 20 Epidermal flaw

21 Its practice doesn’t

make it perfect 22 *Preliminary

sketch

28 Cowboy leggings 30 Quite small

31 __ culpa

32 Indian noblewoman 33 Utopia

35 Degrees of creativity,

briefly

36 *Overly defensive

stance

39 Track calculation 40 Very long time 41 Support for a stroller 42 Seminarian’s subj. 43 __ bran

44 Stun gun brand 45 *Newbie 49 Kareem, once 50 Interoffice PC connection 51 Vehicle that really moves?

54 Canal zone

57 “Lives of the Mayfair Witches” trilogy author

60 Video game figure 61 Agonize about 62 Deal with a bounced email

63 *Stud poker element

DOWN 1 Roofing unit 2 Vigorous spirit 3 “Got anything __?” 4 Mil. three-striper 5 High on the Scoville scale

6 Rodeos, e.g. 7 Equip anew

8 Back nine opener 9 Wealthy

10 “Ecce homo” speaker

11 Hunt stealthily 12 Source of lean red meat

13 PC key

14 Fleur in heraldry 22 Assigns relative value to 23 Mayberry kid 24 2018 Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Terrell 25 “It’s just a scratch” 26 Not as messy 27 “Nothing to it!” 28 Less refined 29 Deal with

33 Put on quite an act 34 Cubs’ digs

35 Heck of a party 36 Swedish tennis great 37 Astern 38 Amazon berry 43 Kind of band 44 Mine feature 46 Please mightily

47 Be at loggerheads 48 Cost

51 Brawny rival

52 Big name in PCs 53 Bookish sort 54 What a sequence of single strokes from the start of each starred answer to the next often adds up to 55 Thoroughfare: abbr. 56 “Life Is Good” rapper 58 Farm girl 59 Dungeons & Dragons bird