CROSSWORD

NOVEL ENDINGS

ACROSS

1 “A Natural Man” singer Lou 6 Longstocking of kid-lit

11 Color, in a way 14 T.S. who wrote of cats

15 Bagel choice 16 Noisy squabble 17 Note from a receiver of stolen goods? 19 White House nickname

20 Combat between fleets

21 React to fear

23 What a 1-Down may count to

24 Shearling’s yield

26 Used a fruit knife on

29 Neckline shape

30 Mints containing Retsyn

33 Arrow-shooting god

34 Pavarotti’s home city

36 The Gay ’90s, e.g.

37 ___ room (dartboard locale, perhaps)

38 After a while

39 Quick swim

40 Tattoos, slangily

41 Pyramids’ top points

42 Scaredy-cat

43 It comes before a delivery

45 Free from, with “of”

46 Pseudo-cultured

47 Dog days month

49 Three-time foe of Frazier

50 Of the pre-Easter period 52 Twists, as a wet towel

55 Chime in with

56 Horror author whose 1986 novel inspired this puzzle’s theme

60 Blooms on a string

61 Empty-headed

62 Cow on milk cartons

63 Tiny hill builder

64 St. ___ fire (weather phenomenon)

65 Brief 16-Across

DOWN

1 Third man in the ring, informally 2 Hoppy brews 3 Beverage with a cheese platter

4 Tracks down

5 Tipsy, and then some

6 Eligible for food stamps 7 Shoo-___ (certain winners) 8 Place for an Indy crew 9 Model’s asset 10 Wrapped up, as a movie 11 Change in a golf club catalog? 12 Plow team’s connector 13 Pitcher in a still-life 18 With 44-Down, prove successful

22 Black ___ (driving hazard)

24 G-man’s resignation?

25 Looked lecherously

26 Problem for Pauline

27 Pepsi Center, e.g.

28 Diamond thief?

29 Targets of campaign ads 31 Tonsorial quickies

32 Overly sentimental

34 Uber app display

35 Thumbs-down verdicts

38 Generous gift-giving

42 Sign of aging

44 See 18-Down

46 Flared dresses

48 “___ next time!” 49 Word that may follow you

50 Singsong syllables

51 Heaven on earth

52 ___ and wherefores

53 Main point

54 Peevish mood

57 Stately tree

58 Mahmoud Abbas’ grp.

59 Prefix with politics or physics