SOUNDALIKES

ACROSS

1 To-do reminders

6 Light-refracting object 11 Personals, e.g. 14 Specially formed, as a committee 15 Like Poe tales 16 Lucy of “Charlie’s Angels” 17 Indicator with the letters NEWS 19 Candy in a dispenser

20 Over-the-hill horse

21 Blast furnace materials

22 Lip-smacking good

24 Hi’s comics spouse

25 College football’s

2018 national champs, for short

27 Business moguls

30 Sicily’s capital

33 Salon or Slate

34 Unilever soap brand

35 Fake out on the rink 37 Blood vessel visible on one’s biceps, say

40 Cheap digs (Abbr.)

41 NYSE debuts

42 Made more bearable

43 Lures into wrongdoing

45 Accent, as a syllable

46 UAW part

47 ___ up (add muscle)

48 Get down pat

51 Test-drive vehicle

52 Nutritional guideline fig.

55 Activate, as a bomb

56 1972 Carly Simon hit

60 Guernsey’s greeting

61 Initial stage

62 Bob of “Full House”

63 Donkey, by another name

64 Can’t do without

65 Piano student’s exercise DOWN

1 Croquet area

2 “What’s the big ___?”

3 Kind of carpet

4 Rug rat

5 Ship in “Amistad,” e.g.

6 Shimon of Israel 7 Races, as an engine 8 Golden ager’s nest egg, briefly

9 ___ City (Las Vegas) 10 Start of a tryster’s message

11 “The Sound of Music” setting 12 Try to trim down

13 1936 Jean Harlow title role 18 Dwarf planet beyond Pluto

23 Predator of termites

24 Symbol of Texas

25 On a first-name ___

26 Salt Lake County ski area

27 Porgy’s love

28 Color of a cloudless sky

29 Wisconsin college, or its town

30 Legendary cowboy ___ Bill 31 Reagan Attorney General Edwin

32 “The Grapes of Wrath” migrants

34 Lighter brand

36 What an infinite loop lacks

38 46-Across first manufactured in Turin

39 Unshackle, say

44 “Guys and Dolls” author Damon

45 Some spreadsheet calculations

47 Sugar-yielding roots

48 Nash’s “one-L” priest

49 Lustful son of Aphrodite

50 “God” singer Tori 51 Scott who sued for his freedom

52 Prego competitor

53 Conked out

54 Up-front poker payment

57 “Just ___ of those things”

58 Put into service

59 Brewery tank