Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Mustang
automaker 5 Honey liquor
9 “__ Mia!”: ABBA
musical
14 Nike rival 15 Convention
center event 16 Noble gas in
some lasers 17 Prepare for a
newborn’s arrival 18 Softball glove 19 Entice
20 *Title of many compilation albums
23 Old 1-Across named for a horse
24 Stores
27 Costello partner 30 Sweetie
31 Vote in favor 33 Actress Polo 34 *Not at all
talkative
38 Take along
40 ISP pioneer 41 Covert agents 42 *Taylor Swift song with the lyrics “You can’t get rid of it / ’Cause you remember it ... ” 45 “To be,” in French 46 Up to, briefly 47 Directional suffix 48 Agitation
50 White __ machine: sleep aid 52 Sight-singing
teaching method 54 *“There’s no way
to know yet” 59 Infomercial dude 62 Dancer Falana 63 Drink whose logo
has frosted letters 64 LEGO brand for
tots
65 “Stay” singer Lisa 66 CBS military
drama 67 Reproductive
health pro
68 Pop artist Warhol 69 Superlative acronym spelled out by the starts of the answers to the starred clues
DOWN
1 Long, pointed
tooth
2 “Evvie Drake Starts __”: novel by Linda Holmes 3 Counterpart of run in calculating the slope of a line 4 Unit of information 5 Foul ball caught
at a game, e.g. 6 Have life
7 Likely will, after
“is”
8 Biblical verb 9 “Crash Into Me” rock group Dave __ Band 10 Childish retort 11 Old RKO rival 12 Messy hairdo 13 Industrious insect 21 __ for tat
22 “No need to tell me what happened there” 25 Mineral that
resembles gold 26 Passover meals 27 Facing the pitcher 28 German capital 29 S.O.S alternative 30 Kristen of “The
Good Place” 32 Strong point 35 Young deer 36 Adversary
37 The “O” of iOS 39 Contributes to, as
a group gift 43 Utah city near
Provo
44 Soothing song 49 Super Bowl org. 51 Setting of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels 52 Faint 53 Lubricated 55 “Boo’d Up”
singer __ Mai 56 Danish shoe
brand
57 A Skywalker
twin
58 For fear that 59 Hullabaloo 60 Name
61 Fuel efficiency
stat