Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Invents, as a word 6 Laugh-a-minute
sort
10 Lucas of “Raising
Hope” 14 Bandleader’s
exhortation 15 Egyptian life
symbol
16 Pest on a pooch 17 Red-tide contents 18 Academy attended by James T. Kirk 20 Shape, as clay 22 Mayberry lad 23 Org. in much
recent news 24 Artist with a record 32 American Music Awards 26 “We’ll let you
know,” on skeds 27 18-Across jr.
officer 28 Threaded
fastener
29 Claw into
31 Fire truck alert 33 Tourette syndrome symptoms 34 Deeply hurt 39 Brooklyn Coll. is
part of it
40 Double duty? 41 Convent leader 44 Shoelace, e.g. 45 NBA’s Heat, on
scoreboards 48 Inouye Airport
arrival gift 49 Inviolable, as a
rule
53 Investment inits. 54 Common ointment ingredient
55 Hall of Fame
knuckleballer Phil 56 With immediacy, or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers 59 Step
60 Worked in a
garden 61 “Because You
Loved Me” singer 62 Battle zone
journalist 63 Criteria: Abbr. 64 Racy message 65 Rotary phone features
DOWN
1 Unsullied
2 Prop for the Tin
Man
3 Men working on a network, informally
4 One Direction’s “cute one” __ Horan
5 “C’mon, we’re in
a hurry!” 6 Late-summer orientation mtg. holders
7 Like many trailers 8 Giraffe relative 9 Frugality 10 Patriots’ org. 11 Exciting, as an
atmosphere 12 Survey info
13 Big shots with big
balances 19 Honor in a big
way
21 Town near
Provincetown 25 Editorial “let it
stand”
30 Feuding
31 Eyelid ailment
32 Smart students’
org.
34 Two, to eight, e.g. 35 Impartial 36 Sundance’s
sweetie
37 “Glee”
cheerleader 38 Not yet corrected
for publication 39 Islamic leaders 42 1979 exile 43 Soup followers
45 Folk singer Miriam known as “Mama Africa” 46 Gal Gadot’s
birthplace 47 Disagreeing 50 Riveting icon 51 Rehab program 52 1938 Physics
Nobelist 57 Six-pt. scores 58 Tolkien’s
Treebeard, e.g.