CROSSWORD

HOLD IT!

ACROSS

1 Windy City hub

6 Expresses sorrow or joy

11 Card game for two 14 Israeli desert region 15 “Guitar Town” country singer Steve 16 Porter relative 17 Advantageous position

19 Source of 16-Across

20 “Chicago Med” areas (Abbr.) 21 Supine sledder’s ride

22 Underline or italicize, say

24 Falco of “The Menendez Murders”

25 Mascara mishap

26 Attaches, as a button

29 Brother of Ophelia, in “Hamlet”

32 Utter nonsense

33 Lean against

35 Place for a nest or icicle

36 “Lust, Caution” director Lee

37 What one can do to the last parts of

17- and 58-Across and 11- and

28-Down

40 eBay offer

41 “Ah, me!” sound

43 YouTube clips, briefly

44 “Big Three” summit site of 1945

46 Landing area on a rooftop

48 Appear in public

49 Bond on the run

50 British spa city

51 Repetitive way to learn

53 Game with mallets

54 Deg. held by George W. Bush

57 Be a suitor to

58 TV host who starred in “Coming to America” 61 “Many moons ___ . . .”

62 Totally lose it

63 Bell-shaped bloom

64 Orange tuber

65 Brought the curtain down on

66 Lends a hand

DOWN

1 Back in the day

2 Get wind of

3 Spy-fi figs.

4 Vicksburg soldier, briefly 5 Superhero’s nemesis

6 Piece of pie or cheese

7 Make less stressful 8 Preposition in odes

9 Item in a sports bar array, perhaps 10 Living room piece 11 Upper surface of an aquifer 12 Wistful word 13 Workout counts 18 Totally botch

23 Like Mantle rookie cards

24 “The Dead Zone” subj.

25 Disparaging remarks

26 Narc’s discovery

27 Banks nicknamed “Mr. Cub”

28 Leeway in negotiations

30 Online party reminder 31 Toyota Corolla, e.g.

33 Off-topic remark

34 Pickup truck’s cargo area

38 1996 role for Madonna

39 Upper canine

42 Big Island port

45 Baseball bat wood

47 Thick soup

48 Neighbor of Java

50 Like a filet 51 NYC theater district 52 “Downward-facing dog” discipline

53 Le Pew or Le Moko

54 Shopaholic’s mecca

55 Spot on a radar screen

56 Home to many ski chalets

59 Poor, as excuses go

60 Color chart selection