THE DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Praised

7 Stalagmite creator

11 Spam holder

14 Periodic Pacific current

15 American Eagle Outfitters lingerie brand

17 Whiz

18 Healthy starter

20 Zodiac animal with horns

21 Thurman of “The War With Grandpa”

22 Actress Goldie

23 Vocation

25 Baked side

30 Floor model

31 Genuflect

32 Pool or polo

33 Red-wrapped cheeses

35 Julia of “The Addams Family”

37 Area represented by Sen. Gillibrand

38 Meaty entrée

42 Prez on a fiver

45 Whole lot

46 Muscle twitch

49 Tank top kin, briefly

51 Crème de la crème

54 Writer Bombeck

55 Filled dessert

59 “Taxi” mechanic

60 __ mortals

61 Place for a “snake bite” piercing

62 “What __, chopped liver?”

63 Sequence of dishes such as 18-, 25-, 38-, and 55-Across, in more ways than one

68 Actor Mckellen

69 Leading in a tight game

70 Barcelona’s nación

71 Flavor enhancer, for short

72 Buttonlike earring

73 Squeaky ball, e.g.

DOWN

1 Slight advantage

2 Apple pie order

3 Starless?

4 “You __ your best”

5 Chicago-toToronto dir.

6 Honolulu-born jet pilot who became a pop singer

7 Galápagos Islands researcher

8 Confirms, as a password

9 Isl. with four provinces

10 See 36-Down

11 Traveling band

12 Private school

13 Foes that seem impossible to beat

16 Bk. read at Purim

19 Rubberneck

24 Tractor-trailer

26 Amo, amas, __

27 Crypts

28 “But it’s a dry __”

29 Hints

34 Home of many L.A. Times readers

36 With 10-Down, politician’s flag, often

39 “The Lion King” lion

40 Word processor feature

41 Melissa Benoist’s role on “Supergirl”

42 Accolades

43 Islands northeast of Cuba

44 Chewing the scenery

47 Welcome warmly

48 Rivera who holds the MLB record for career saves

50 “Blech!”

52 Apparently was

53 Mega- squared

56 Hanauma Bay’s island

57 Gave up

58 Fan out

64 Photo __

65 Clever remark

66 Paul Anka’s “__ Beso”

67 High hybrid

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