CROSSWORD

STEERING COMMITTEE

ACROSS

1 Chicken’s crossing place

5 First preposition in “The Raven” 9 Falcon’s attack 14 Radisson competitor 15 Eccentric Roman emperor 16 Marx with a curly wig 17 Creator of frankenfood

20 Self-centered sorts

21 Brought to ruin

22 Rachael who coined “EVOO”

23 Luau finger food

24 Board game randomizer

25 “Speechless” star

31 “Encore presentation,” familiarly

34 Souvenir top

35 Astronomical explosion

36 Leap on blades

37 Gastric juice components

39 Fly erratically

40 Gershon of “P.S. I Love You”

41 Call to a rescuer

42 Analog film units

43 Lakeside tosser

47 Break a courtroom oath

48 Mortar shell trajectory

49 “Spring forward” letters

52 Polygons, e.g.

56 Self-described “non-musician” of ambient music

58 Start of a series, hopefully

60 Came to light

61 Soda jerk’s concoction

62 ACA part

63 Reached first base

64 Finds a purpose for

65 Gawked at

DOWN

1 “Framed” movie rabbit

2 Last in a Greek series

3 Bug to no end

4 Try to slim down

5 In ___ (playing the same notes) 6 It makes jelly jell 7 Prospectors’ strikes 8 ___-GMO (food label) 9 Sock-in-the-eye consequence 10 Harry Potter’s is made of holly 11 Cookie crumbled into desserts 12 ___-book exam 13 Epidermal opening 18 Deflected basketball score

19 Tour workers

24 Proof of ownership

25 Chinese Disney heroine

26 Reply to “Who’s there?”

27 Conclude through logic

28 Crop-damaging rodent

29 More than just mischievous

30 “Just my rotten luck!”

31 Car wash supply

32 Maze solver’s goal

33 Gaming mecca on

I-80

37 Birthplace of Saint Francis

38 “Taste the Feeling!” soda brand, informally

42 Postgame summary

44 Early lunch hour, perhaps

45 Release granted by a board

46 Whodunit evidence

49 Air traveler’s headache 50 Sound from a bunkhouse 51 Packed, as a pistol 52 Word before party or beetle

53 Subway buy

54 In a big way

55 Currency of Cuba

56 Unfair, unbalanced viewpoint

57 “Good job!”

59 Bush Center sch.