THE DAILY CROSSWORD
Today’s puzzle theme honors the 75th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America.
ACROSS
1 Some munchies
6 Asks to be excused, with “off”
10 Latin initialism on a cross
13 WWII riveter
14 Relating to body structure
16 A step up from a carport, perhaps
18 Come to terms
19 Electronic dance music genre
21 Org. that’s not lax at LAX
22 Interval
26 Space
27 German brewing surname
30 Common Korean surname
31 Extremely dry
32 Limitationof-freedom metaphor
36 Doubled, perhaps
39 Corrida figures
40 Ding-a-ling or ding-dong
42 Zilch
43 Greater N.Y. school
44 Orchestra section
48 Chicago airport code
49 “Golden Boy” playwright
51 Hotel amenity
52 President of Princeton, then the U.S.
55 Stride affectedly
58 Literary genre often associated with the writer concealed in 16-, 32- and 40-Across
62 One happy to have no class?
63 Arabian, for one
64 DE Dec. setting
65 What might take a while?
66 Fencing blades
DOWN
1 Pizza party leftovers
2 “Really”
3 Eponymous goddess of a 1987 film flop
4 Painter Mondrian
5 Stop from leaking
6 Sweetie, in recent slang
7 Stop
8 Joke
9 Hawaii, e.g.
10 Apple desktop
11 A condition of maximum activity
12 Hypothetical account
15 Kate Brown is its gov.
17 Business card no.
20 Bids first
23 Considered in full
24 Tiny soup base
25 Mailed, as invites
28 “The Audacity of Hope” author
29 “I’m amused”
31 Gather wool from
33 Set ablaze
34 Female ruminant
35 Nursery item
36 First big song success for The Moody Blues
37 Positioned for ambush, as in many Westerns
38 Two-year-olds, say
41 Dessert choice
45 Like sailors on leave
46 Spread out
47 Agree
49 At the proper moment
50 Montreal-toboston dir.
53 RBI or ERA
54 Venerable ref.
56 Queens tennis venue honoree
57 Where to get off
59 Paving stuff
60 “__ nothing new”
61 Nov. honoree