CROSSWORD
OUCH!
ACROSS
1 Act the blowhard 6 Standing tall 11 “2 Broke Girls” network 14 More up to the task 15 Clean, as a fish 16 Muesli morsel 17 Popular place for visitors 19 Hit the slopes 20 Fiber for Manila rope 21 Cars at charging stations 22 King’s equivalent, in blackjack 23 Apple of Discord thrower, in myth 25 New Jersey’s largest city 27 “Tristan und Isolde” composer 30 Clown in the king’s court 32 Hopping mad 33 Best who was replaced by Ringo 34 Yahtzee quintet 37 Toy soldier material 38 Skill that’s rarely seen now 41 Common URL ender 42 Generationsspanning tale 44 Dyers’ vessels 45 Option under Clock, on an iPhone 47 Gridiron two-pointer 49 Cognac or Calvados 50 Round Table ruler 52 Start to unravel 53 Boston Harbor jetsam of 1773 54 Islamic canonical law 57 Italian island east of Corsica 61 RPM part 62 In pain, and what you’re doing for the answers to 17- and 38-Across and 11and 29-Down 64 “Selma” director DuVernay 65 Aardsma replaced him as the alphabetically first MLB player 66 Trying for a hit 67 Sales staffer, for short 68 Races with sulkies 69 Sauce with basil
DOWN
1 Rubber ducky’s spot 2 Woodwind with a haunting sound 3 Visitor to an old prof, perhaps 4 Eve’s tempter 5 ___-color pasta 6 Rob of “90210” 7 Many DVD players 8 Robert Crawley on “Downton Abbey,” e.g. 9 Ajax or Comet 10 Mad Hatter’s service 11 San Jose native 12 Maker of tarts and tortes 13 Perform poorly, slangily 18 Tend to the sauce 24 One of two in a cassette 26 Get hitched 27 Punsters, e.g. 28 Pavarotti piece 29 Hip-hop genre with violent lyrics 30 Preventer of beach erosion 31 JFK and ORD guesstimates 33 Natl. Merit Scholarship qualifier 35 Firewood purchase 36 Any of dozens won by “SNL” through 2016 39 Find out by eavesdropping 40 Reid of “Sharknado” 43 Satisfied sigh 46 Common baby shower gift 48 Annoy with constant complaining 49 Act the blowhard 50 For face value, as a stock 51 Chaucerian tale teller 52 Helsinki natives 55 Prefix with space 56 Laugh-a-minute sort 58 Bio or chem rooms 59 Spoiled kid 60 Regarding, on a memo 63 Con artist’s prey