Crossword No. 658: No Great Shakes
ACROSS
1 Granny’s daughter
6 Area of study
11 “This might be good to know”
14 Note that may be a “Bcc”
15 Orange-yellow shade 16 Rand Paul’s father 17 President Biden raised eyebrows on July 15 by greeting the crown prince of this country with a fist bump instead of a handshake
19 Part of a provost’s email address
20 Like Tucson’s climate 21 Part of the eye
22 Walks through water 24 Starring role
26 Deltoid or pectoral, e.g. 27 School assignments 30 Nearsightedness 32 Clicking calculators 33 Young horse
34 Story lines 37 Comprehend
38 Owing to the large gloves players wear, fist-bumping has been common in this sport for decades
41 Faucet
42 Hamburg’s river
44 Pen fillers
45 Final letter
47 Sends to cloud nine 49 Turns the volume way up on
50 Monkey’s snack
52 Bob Dylan genre
53 2006 World Cup champs
54 Prefix with space 56 Ashtabula’s lake 60 Lowercase I part
61 This 1970s superhero pair fist-bumped to transform into other forms
64 An, in Argentina 65 Schwarzenegger nickname
66 Org. co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois
67 For one item
68 Irish poet with a Nobel 69 Tenor Ronan
DOWN
1 Arizona city
2 Sy or Sharif
3 Island that shares its name with a demigod 4 Starting key
5 Boxing king
6 ___ well (succeeded) 7 Mogadishu-born model
8 Falls back, as the tide 9 Flowery garland 10 Prepare, as a contract 11 The fist bump was popularized by this NBA journeyman in the 1970s
12 Holler in the Alps 13 Already taken
18 “Such a shame...” 23 Home to Hanoi and Hyderabad
25 Clapton on guitar
26 Deep-cover spy
27 Novel part
28 Genesis name
29 This singer can be seen fist-bumping a dancer in the video to her 1983 hit “Love Is a Battlefield”
30 Sends up
31 Flaps one’s gums 33 “Works for me”
35 MMA match enclosure 36 Health resorts
39 Ora or Moreno
40 Charge for your car 43 Airline to the Middle East
46 “Step aside!”
48 “Moving right along...” 49 Rude type
50 Increase the auction price of
51 Make amends 52 Liberates
54 Wintour or Faris 55 Improve, as a school paper
57 Knives Out director
Johnson
58 ___ Trail (path to
Machu Picchu)
59 Baseball Tonight airer 62 Miner’s find 63 Angry Birds explosives