CRACKING A SMILE
ACROSS
1 Striker’s bane
5 Acting too hastily
9 Gladden to the max
14 Do high-tech surgery on 15 Bart’s bus driver 16 Gas in some headlights 17 Comics pooch since 1978
18 Reader at a slam
19 Far from popular
20 Historic rigid airship
23 Burglar alarm part
24 Hefty hunk of bacon
25 DNA test site
28 On the market
30 Roman who wrote “Orator”
32 Exchange zingers
36 Source of easy money
39 TV feed part
41 Flamenco cheer
42 Socked away
43 Launderer’s challenge
46 Fingerpainting aftermath, maybe
47 Thing to consider
48 Place to 60-Down
50 Wimbledon unit
51 Thumbs-up votes
54 Insults jokingly
59 Unseen vegetable in “Peanuts”
61 Kyoto’s land
64 Kickstarter project target
65 A4 and R8 automaker
66 1836 siege site
67 Handed-down tales
68 Call for an encore
69 Cried like a kitten 70 Order with an Exalted Ruler 71 Macpherson on SI covers
DOWN
1 Works like a dog
2 Elite group
3 Like small-eared elephants
4 Complaints, slangily 5 Braided floor covering
6 Resting on
7 Pedometer units
8 Convention site
9 Museum offerings
10 Like good pastrami
11 Picnic pest
12 Ballerina’s pivot
13 Passer’s target, maybe
21 Common field trip destination
22 Like many a
38-Down
25 Word after sick or shore
26 Celestial ram
27 Treasury buys
29 Runner’s warmup pace
31 Pack like sardines
32 “Beowulf” and “Roots”
33 Boxer’s earnings
34 Change to suit
35 Don’t take a knee
37 In the manner of
38 Bit of bridal attire
40 Academy Award nomination
44 Eyelid woe
45 “Anything goes!”
49 Male turkey
52 Bird on Mexico’s flag
53 Happy hour perch
55 Without delay
56 Pirate flag symbol
57 Of ebb and flow
58 Slender-billed shorebird
59 50-Across part
60 Use an assigned space, say
61 Stick y spread
62 Gastropub beverage
63 Fox’s foot