THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Meat on a skewer
6 Better mtge. deal
10 Subtle “Look this way”
14 Gulf of __: Red Sea inlet
15 Horror movie helper
16 Healthy
17 Albacore and yellowfin
18 “Darn it!”
20 Ingredient in some Tibetan cheese
22 Genealogy aid
23 Pie-mode link
24 Cut out early
25 “Heavenly!”
26 Mont Blanc, e.g.
29 Beatles’ meter maid
31 Hunk of dirt
33 Lea plea
34 Fast-food chain named for its founders, the Raffel Brothers
36 Pro Football Hall of Fame receiver Michael
39 Splendor
41 Maple extract
42 Born yesterday, so to speak
43 Female folklore deity
44 Part of a plug
46 Word with pool or park
47 First name in country
49 List-ending abbr.
50 Finish
51 Crayon shade
53 Legendary Greek mount
55 Drink with scones
57 Ideal way to work, teamwise
59 “No idea”
63 Living labyrinth
65 Time off, informally
66 “The Clan of the Cave Bear” author Jean
67 Kitchen cooker 68 Clear the board
69 Nimble
70 Let off steam
71 Drops below the horizon
DOWN
1 Pop singer Perry
2 Water color
3 River border
4 Hawaiian-born
president
5 Sherlock Holmes portrayer in 15 movies
6 Gamble
7 __ trip
8 “On Golden Pond” actor or actress
9 Dramatically twisty
10 Awesome, in ’90s slang
11 Wise counsel
12 Blizzard remains
13 Grade for a soph
19 Autumn occurrence, and a hint to the start of the other four longest Down answers
21 Bandit’s hideout
24 Silicon Valley region
26 “You got that right!”
27 Like many doilies
28 Interpreter of lines
30 Recipe amt.
32 “... boy __ girl?”
35 Predicament
37 Lendl of tennis
38 Uncool one
40 Copy
45 Kid-lit’s __ the Great
48 “I, Robot” author
51 Comedy club sounds
52 Exhaust
54 Ward (off)
56 Gaming giant
58 Hideous
59 Like knees during a squat
60 MRI image
61 Face concealer
62 Focus group?
64 Buddhist sect