CROSSWORD

FACE FORWARD 9/25

ACROSS

1 Universal Studios Japan city 6 Pronoun in letter greetings 10 Toothbrush option 14 CSA signature 15 Pearl Harbor’s island 16 Roadster rod 17 Vegetable tray munchie

19 Far from fatty 20 Center square symbol, in Scrabble 21 Goalie’s station 22 Comes up with ideas 24 “Othello” baddie 26 Working stiff 27 Garment covered by ski pants, perhaps 32 Watches an entire TV marathon, say 33 “All ___ being equal . . .” 34 Pitchfork wielders in “Frankenstein” 36 Diana of “Mahogany”

37 “LA Ink” art, briefly 38 Bread with hummus 39 Square ___ (starting point)

40 Novel’s essence 42 Key with no sharps or flats

44 Tool for Sweeney Todd 47 Concerning, on a memo 48 Tombstone’s state (Abbr.)

49 Light of “Transparent” 52 Blogger’s “As I see it” 53 Unworried state 57 Redding who wrote “Respect” 58 Poacher pursuer 61 Was philanthropic 62 Feature of ozone, vis-a-vis oxygen gas 63 Agreed (with) 64 Backyard structure 65 Pad Thai vessels 66 Closers on steamer trunks

DOWN

1 Spheres in space 2 Airline ticket datum 3 Jessica of “Fantastic Four” movies 4 Custodians’ belt attachments 5 Nuclear agcy. until 1974

6 Passed slowly, as time

7 “Blue Moon” lyricist Lorenz 8 “Eureka!” 9 Grumbles sotto voce 10 Contacts wearer’s solution

11 Plow pair 12 Harsh criticism 13 Bills depicting the Treasury Building 18 Beef cattle breed 23 Gordie known as “Mr. Hockey” 25 Peter Pan didn’t do this

26 Clobber with snowballs 27 Parents of some cubs 28 Earliest stage 29 One of two certainties, to Franklin

30 ___ acids (essential nutrients) 31 Helicopter mechanism 32 Buddy, slangily 35 Mixologist’s workplace

37 Like a drive-through order

38 Place to order slices

40 “Back to the Future” destination 41 John of “3rd Rock From the Sun”

42 Pointer from

A to Z, in Amazon’s logo 43 ___ Tai cocktail 45 Upped the ante 46 Circus workers with 27-Down 49 Does a fun run, say 50 Monument Valley state

51 Sleazy 35-Down 52 “No harm done” 54 Offers an afterthought

55 Slip through a crack 56 Draws the curtain on 59 Bother, to the Bard 60 Coating on a spent briquette