CROSSWORD

SKITTISH BEGINNINGS

ACROSS

1 Amway Center, e.g.

6 Hockey great Mikita

10 MHz part

14 Got nourishment from

15 River to the Ligurian Sea 16 Bell-ringer of commercials 17 Car in the Beach Boys’ “Fun Fun Fun” 18 Gallop or canter 19 Lady’s escort, for short

20 Weekend theater offering

23 Red or Dead

24 Roberts of “The Expendables”

25 Recipe guesstimate

28 Teen’s blemish

31 Fermentation fungi

35 Laila of boxing

36 Coupe alternative

38 “Skedaddle!”

39 After-hours banking convenience

42 Sax larger than an alto

43 Squad car feature

44 Salon bed acquisition

45 Comes next

47 “Norma ___” (Field movie)

48 Big Apple tennis venue

49 Leak slowly

51 Fashionable, in

1960s Britain

53 Hulu offering

61 “Aloha Oe” instruments, briefly

62 Bronte’s Jane

63 See 67-Across

64 Often-buggy software version

65 Gerund, e.g.

66 Remove from the board

67 With 63-Across, nation since 2002

68 Floored it

69 Freshen up

DOWN

1 Times in classifieds

2 McEntire of country

3 Make more readable, say

4 “Take your time!”

5 Braugher of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” 6 “Iliad” or “Odyssey” 7 Airline seat feature 8 “Speed Racer” genre 9 Witness with an official stamp 10 It may involve a hat trick

11 Not bumpy

12 GWTW part

13 Feed the kitty

21 Seeing stars

22 Connects, in marketing

25 “Inferno” poet

26 “Little green man”

27 PED XING and others

29 Bad time for Caesar

30 Piglike forest dweller

32 Blackens, in a way

33 Scroll in an ark

34 “People” composer Jule

36 Manhattan’s 42nd, e.g.

37 “Lucky Guy” playwright Ephron

40 Watched a friend’s home, say

41 Boss’s terse note

46 Naturals in Vegas

48 Think the world of

50 Militar y mind game, for short

52 Movie with a posse, perhaps 53 Grease job, briefly

54 Build-it-yourself chain

55 Nov. 11 marchers

56 In alignment

57 Tear to shreds

58 David Bowie’s widow

59 Grasping part of a

30-Down

60 Approached adulthood