Crossword

ACROSS

1 “Stat!”

5 Long, loose dress

11 “___ NewsHour”

14 Lady ___, anthem singer at Biden’s inauguration

15 Like the first “d” in “Wednesday” 16 Ad ___

17 Leader of an oilrich land, maybe

18*Seat for the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros

20 T, in a sorority

22 Poem of tribute

23 “Movin’ ___” (“The Jeffersons” theme)

24 *Devotee of Jerry Garcia’s band

28 Pants measurement 29 Craftsperson

30 Bride-to-be

32 Honeybunch?

33 Makes plenty angry

35 Map abbr. until 1991

36 *“Can You Feel the Love Tonight” singer/composer

39 Home of the N.B.A.’s Thunder, for short

42 Submit

43 Delays no more

47 Canadian city whose name consists of two consecutive boys’ names

49 “Hot” place for a cat in theater

51 Attribute 52 *Decisive defeat 53 Word after wild or rolled

54 I

56 Key near Caps Lock

57 One using crude language … or one saying the last parts of the answers to the starred clues?

61Life is a long one

64 Lanai strings

65 “The ___ Show” (best-selling album of 2002)

66 County name in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania

67 To be, in Spanish

68 Like some truck trailers

69 Stash

DOWN

1 What a tot might indicate by holding up fingers

2 Dr. Seuss’ ___-I-am

3 Stir up 4 Heaven

5 CBS forensic series

6 Space shuttle supply

7 Inundate

8 Be in charge of, as a bar

9 Kick in seed money

10 Last in a mathematical series

11 Subject that teaches the varying “ch” sounds of “cheap,” “chaos” and “charade”

12 Add-ons

13 King’s rod

19 Speckled horse

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21 Speech fillers

24 Little bit, as of cream

25 Before, in poetry

26 Day for an egg hunt

27 Lover of Cleopatra

28 Laundry

30 Tex-Mex dish served in a soft tortilla

31 “Just leave the job to me”

34 Last part

37 Exam for a future D.A.

38 Does voice work for a documentary, say

39 Creature that might squirt ink and use tools

40 Activity done while reading a screen

41 Apt anagram of RATTLE + C

44 Late-night rival of Kimmel and Fallon

45 Exceedingly

46 Hub NW of LAX

48 Heart

50 Court divider Concern for a medic

54 Actress Watson of the “Harry Potter” films

55 Enter

58 Although

59 Shirt named for its shape

60 “I dunno …” ___

62 Grande

63 Kitten’s sound

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