YOUR HOST, INITIALLY
ACROSS
1 British bloke
5 Rural stopovers
9 Rock concert array
13 “Bad, bad” Brown
15 West Virginia export
16 Locker room dispenser filler 17 Pension law of 1974, briefly 18 Sandusky’s lake 19 Like Aaron Judge, as ballplayers go
20 Butcher’s tool
23 Part of UCSD
24 “What have we here?”
25 In plain sight 27 Aretha Franklin hit of 1982 32 “Ben-Hur” or “Gladiator”
33 “___ was saying . . .”
34 Fathered on a stud farm
36 Fare behind a sneeze guard
39 South African grassland
41 Intro deliverer, and a hint to this puzzle’s theme
43 Disney friend of Stitch
44 Invite to one’s loft, say
46 Leading the pack
48 Pull a fast one on
49 Dollar rentals
51 Toothed part of a bicycle 53 Resounding, as church bells
56 Lav, to a Brit
57 Throw wildly, say
58 HMO offering
64 One may be set up on one
66 ___ sci (college major, informally)
67 Not far away
68 Beginning on
69 Stereotypically blind officials, for short
70 Brings home 71 Extended credit to 72 Black Flag or d-CON target
73 “Sonic Generations”
game company
DOWN
1 ___ Kadiddlehopper (Red Skelton rube) 2 Where “you are,” on a mall map
3 Cantata tune
4 Hospital recovery area, for short 5 Carbonated frozen drink brand
6 “Julie & Julia” screenwriter Ephron
7 Easily taken in
8 ___ tattoo (arm-covering art)
9 Mount St. Helens spew
10 Action on an icon 11 Atheist or polytheist, perhaps 12 Shelled out 14 Vessels for the well-to-do 21 Sarge’s superior 22 Places for patches 26 Zest or Ivory alternative 27 Barista’s serving, slangily
28 Swiss Army knife’s many
29 Container in the dairy isle
30 Hogwarts librarian ___ Pince 31 PC support pros 35 Like one end of many pools 37 Sunburn soother
38 “You ___ say?”
40 Like a Jekyll/ Hyde personality
42 Steve with the country album “Guitar Town”
45 Old-maidish
47 Draw in the margins, maybe
50 Buy quickly
52 Apres-ski drinks
53 Propel a tandem
54 Clear from the board
55 Many a garden figurine 59 Range crossed by Hannibal
60 Essential point
61 1/640 square mile
62 Called by phone
63 “Lohengrin” heroine
65 Direct deposit, briefly
Tuesday’s Answer