Crossword No. 736: Island Time
ACROSS
1 Missed birdie putt results, often
5 Words in poker hands
11 Do a farmer’s job
14 Extinguish birthday candles, e.g.
15 Walking around with a silly grin, maybe
16 Word after aluminum or iron
17 Obscure entrepreneur who won the March 5 Democratic primary in American Samoa over President Biden, 51 votes to 40, despite never visiting the territory
19 Overtime necessitator
20 Capture
21 Hit the sack
23 2023 Taika Waititi film about American Samoa’s national soccer team
27 Hit, as a fly or pop fly
30 Nursery or den, e.g.
31 Suffix with surreal
32 American Samoa’s capital, known for its superb natural harbor
34 ___ Valley (suburb of L.A.)
36 Give a pink slip to
37 Cries of concern
38 Word after cable or elevator
39 [It was like that!]
42 Deli loaves
44 American Samoa’s main commodity, accounting for about 90 percent of all its exports
46 Three letters before “eff”
47 Wahlberg or Zuckerberg
48 “Don’t look ___ like that!”
49 Hawaii congresswoman (2013–21) and 2020 presidential candidate who was born in American Samoa
53 No-___ (easy decision)
54 “By all ___!” (“Absolutely!”)
58 Lawsuit bringer (abbr.)
59 This is controversially not granted at birth by the U.S. to American Samoa–born individuals
63 Cover story
64 Like lemons and limes
65 Tiniest bit
66 Trippy tab
67 “You’ve got it all wrong!”
68 Tolstoy’s turndown
DOWN
1 Sandwiches often crustless, for short
2 Tudyk or Thicke
3 Spanish for “pink”
4 ___ secrecy (keeping mum)
5 Great Expectations protagonist
6 Twisted Love novelist Huang
7 ___-gotten gains
8 Moonstruck or Sleepless in Seattle, say
9 ___ barrel (lacking good options)
10 Wild, as pigs
11 “The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived...”
12 Agatha Christie title word
13 Tends the garden, sometimes
18 French word in wedding announcements
22 Do the Australian crawl, for instance
24 Doctors examine them
25 ___ up (dresses to the nines)
26 Toothpaste, e.g.
27 De-stressing spot
28 Candle drippings
29 Like many life changes
33 “The Gold-Bug” author, 1843
34 Old-school decaf
35 Nest-egg funds
38 Larry David show, casually
40 Belief system
41 The Motorcycle Diaries role
43 ___ Can (Sammy Davis Jr. autobiography)
44 “The damage,” in a restaurant or bar
45 Grows gradually more visible, as a movie scene
46 Sliwa or Mayfield
47 Part of MLK
49 Sport with no pitches
50 Like the ruins at Sacsayhuaman
51 Company with a lizard mascot
52 Prez from ’69 to ’74
55 Chips ___! (cookie brand)
56 Dark period, casually
57 Lovers’ quarrel
60 “Yes indeedy!”
61 A Cali wine
62 Prefix meaning “green”