THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Quotable Yankee, familiarly
5 “Yikes!”
9 Fencing blades
14 Tarzan raisers
15 Cher and Sade, vocally
16 16th-century
English queen
17 With 63-Across, musician born 12/16/1770
19 North Sea county
20 German steel city
21 Offered an arm to
23 Basics
25 Ming most look up to
26 Nickname for a 63-Across 39-Down
29 Literate
34 __ Vegas
35 Marks for removal
37 “Inferno” poet 38 Story lines
40 Numerically, 63-Across’ C-minor 39-Down
42 Tolkien trilogy, to fans
43 Remains
45 It’s usually not a hit
47 Toon crime fighter __ Possible
48 Spread throughout
50 Nickname for a 63-Across 39-Down
52 Pipe plastic
53 Like cotton candy
54 Sticky stuff
58 Facebook action
62 Unverified word
63 See 17-Across
65 Tony winner Menzel
66 The M in BLT?
67 Artist’s quarters
68 Record material
69 Chopped side dish
70 Some traffic court cases: Abbr.
DOWN
1 New Haven school
2 Musical work
3 H.S. proficiency tests
4 Oath beginning
5 XK-E, for short
6 Seasonal aides
7 Greek vowels
8 It makes cents
9 Important gem in Oz
10 Nickname for a 63-Across 39-Down
11 Gaelic language
12 Watched closely
13 Touchdown points
18 __ humor: grumpy
22 Bony Olive
24 Musical symbol
26 Bracelet fastener
27 Gold rush storyteller
28 “The Odd Couple” roommate
29 Group self-pic, in slang
30 Started, as a co.
31 Japanese mushroom
32 Web site
33 Stuffed Jewish dish also called kishke
36 Itemize
39 63-Across work
41 Dickens sycophant
44 A few
46 Salon item
49 Summer coolers,
briefly
51 Indefinitely suspended
53 “Later!”
54 Autobahn auto
55 Key of the 26-Across 39-Down: Abbr.
56 System/360s, e.g.
57 Piccata meat
59 Openly declare
60 Mortgagee’s option, for short
61 Laryngitis docs
62 Ohio or Mississippi: Abbr.
64 Auto club service