STRAIGHT AHEAD
ACROSS
1 Improvise musically
5 Plasterer’s reinforcement
9 Direction on pudding boxes 13 Lebanon’s locale 14 Houseplant with fleshy leaves 15 Bored with it all 16 Account access need, redundantly
18 Invokes the anger of
19 Like a single sock
20 Expletive from Beaver Cleaver
21 Shelf support
23 Stepped down
26 Past caring about
27 Winter hrs. in Waco
28 Act reciprocally
32 Stand up to
35 Cookies in dirt cake
36 “That was stupid of me!” 37 Thurman of “Kill Bill” movies
38 Pen-and-ink illustrations
40 1950s nickname in D.C.
41 Maker of Stic pens
42 Standing at attention
43 Kangaroo’s baby
44 Least 38-Down
46 Pronoun in knock-knock jokes
48 Streak in marble
49 Not so bumpy
54 “We Build, We Fight” military group 57 ___ jardiniere (served with vegetables) 58 Gardner once married to Sinatra 59 Betting every last chip
60 Assistant named for a Defoe character
63 Thin and bony
64 Long-tongued canine of comics 65 ___ up (dress elaborately)
66 Sometimes-pulled winter toy
67 Jab with a cattle prod, say
68 Barreled along
DOWN
1 Steam, e.g.
2 To the left or right
3 Is bothered by
4 Critique harshly
5 Say “woe is me,” say
6 “Tiny Alice” playwright Edward
7 Toddler’s “piggy”
8 Chef’s flavor enhancer
9 Sandwich shop machine 10 Michael Savage’s genre
11 “Point taken” 12 There’s none for the weary, it’s said 15 Most gutsy 17 Trendy Australian boots
22 Component of many lawn mowers
24 Hardly hospitable 25 Gives orders, on a set
29 Free of clutter
30 Burger and fries go-with, perhaps 31 Finger-pointer’s pronoun 32 Confers a title upon
33 Give off, as light
34 Five cents, for a nickel
35 Till stack
38 Unusually short, as a prison sentence
39 2000 Renee Zellweger title role
43 Write hastily
45 Mend, as a falling-apart book
46 Ate ravenously, with “down”
47 Frosty coating
50 Fidget spinners, these days 51 Entertained in a loft, say 52 Artfully dodge 53 Like Lady Liberty’s crown
54 Loses firmness
55 Line with a six-pointed star logo 56 Cityscape obscurer 61 Bother, to the Bard 62 Employee photo badges, for short