CROSSWORD

GIMME A BREAK!

ACROSS

1 Potpourri bit 6 Babysitter’s handful 10 Back up, as a file 14 Tie the knot on the run 15 Sleek, in auto lingo 16 WATS part 17 Busch Gardens locale 18 Participate in the NFL draft? 20 Idris who played Mandela 21 Three mos. 22 Curling venues 23 Lecherous sort 25 “How’m I ___?” 27 Be generous to bar patrons? 31 Workplaces for MDs 34 Car dealer’s courtesy 35 Signal to go ahead 36 Drink from a snifter 37 Gas station adjunct 38 Witherspoon of “Big Little Lies” 40 Reason to 14- Across 41 Seek clarification 42 Stat for Babe Ruth, early on 43 Like the Titanic’s voyage 45 Unspecified degree, in math 46 Get ready to surf? 48 Helpful to have 50 Part of, as a scheme 51 Forsythia, e. g. 53 Gave the 35- Across to 54 Macho guy 58 Throw slaw or fries? 61 Be nuts about 62 Five- dollar bills, slangily 63 Superior to, at work 64 Cheese hunk 65 Like a Pollyanna’s outlook 66 It’s more, it’s said 67 Brought the curtain down on

DOWN

1 Mayor Buttigieg 2 Super- secure airline 3 Setting for the final scene in “Aida” 4 Obvious to all 5 Pastoral place, in poetry 6 Baker’s mixture 7 What last- place finishers bring up 8 Great Flood refuge 9 “Little piggy” 10 Camper’s rental 11 Sunkist offering 12 Eat like a bird 13 Talks ad nauseam 19 Ill- suited for farming 21 Locks horns 24 Extracted resource 25 Some acoustic acts 26 Available for viewing anytime 27 With 32- Down, “Show Boat” tune 28 Honor with insults 29 Surprise nominees 30 Latish bedtime 32 See 27- Down 33 Shell out 39 Buffalo’s county 40 Spot from which Daniel emerged unharmed 44 Blood- typing letters 46 Homeland of many Miamians 47 Some gang members 49 Like Felix, in “The Odd Couple” 51 Marquee name 52 Mulligan stew maker 53 Dedicated works 55 Fictional barber Sweeney 56 Egg on 57 Any of 28 in Monopoly 59 Note to follow fa 60 “___ got it!” 61 Leave slack- jawed

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