THE DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chess result 5 “NASCAR on NBC” analyst Earnhardt Jr. 9 Metalworker 14 Cancún coin

15 A party to 16 Island near Maui 17 *Devoted ESPN

viewer

19 Uneasy feeling 20 Word after box

or law

21 Bullish sound? 22 Wail

23 *Spec for

sandpaper or salt 27 Coll. near the Rio

Grande

29 Hard rain 30 Dance class topic 31 First name in skin

care

33 Caddie’s offering 35 Make a wrong

turn, say 36 *Quarry that supplies aggregate 40 Guys

43 Jai __ 44 Quebec’s __

Peninsula 48 Racecourse

shape

50 Ready for bed,

briefly 53 Long-running

CBS series 54 *Garden walkway

component 57 Malarkey 58 Pachelbel work 59 Treasury

secretary Janet 61 Sahara features 62 Last player selected for a Wimbledon ranking ... or part of each answer to a starred clue 65 Locale

66 Heck of a hike 67 Dell rival

68 Brings in

69 Actor Grant 70 Drive-__

DOWN

1 MLB rally killers 2 Researchers’

publications 3 To date

4 Klingon officer in the “Star Trek” franchise

5 ’70s hot spots 6 Strengthen, as

glass

7 Seuss’ Cindy __

Who

8 Suffix with exist 9 Language student’s challenge 10 Medieval

estates 11 Thankless sort 12 Preferable,

gastronomically 13 Major success 18 Half a mint? 21 Contrived plot 22 Alert for an

actor 24 Checkout

printout 25 Unload, say 26 “Morning Edition”

airer 28 Alternative to

Margie

32 Noted period 34 Important 37 Square up 38 Hotel shuttles 39 Light earth tone

40 Short flight 41 Hurricane mandate responder 42 Tropical

grassland 45 Sudden stop

sound 46 Trailblazer 47 “C’__ la vie!” 49 Umpire’s pregame request

51 Olympic star

Jackie __-Kersee 52 Deceptive 55 Wine qualities 56 Building wing 60 Challenge for an

atty. wannabe 61 Tivo, for one 62 Agcy. concerned

with fraud 63 Gershwin

brother

64 R&B’S __ Hill