CROSSWORD

INSIDE STORIES

ACROSS

1 Shoppers’ aids

6 Disagreeable duty

10 Car wash supplies

14 Dimwitted sort

15 Badlands feature

16 State with six straight sides 17 Oral hygienist’s procedure

19 Dimwitted sort

20 Lose firmness

21 Part of a Frankenstein’s Monster costume

22 Got hitched on the run

24 Nielsen of “Mr. Magoo”

26 Worker with a whisk

27 Solving puzzles involves this

32 Swats away, as flies

35 Basis for a civil suit

36 He wrote of “the sweet Lenore” 37 Signal from an empty stomach

38 Do axels and lutzes

40 Best-liked, informally 41 Boxer with a “shuffle”

42 McGraw of talk TV

43 Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy”

44 Rare astronomical event

48 Whimsical adventure

49 Alloy components

52 Many college benefactors

55 Blacken on a grill

56 Smuggler-stopping org.

58 Villain’s vanquisher

59 Cause for a reboot, often

62 Dairy-aisle dozen

63 Caramel-topped dessert

64 Lincoln Financial Field gridder

65 ___ & Chandon Champagne

66 Shipped off

67 Message in a “storm”

DOWN

1 Coffee shop stack

2 Model of perfection

3 Ironing mishap

4 Kid-vid viewer

5 Shelters for Shetlands

6 Dish that requires breaking 62-Across

7 Bank teller’s call

8 Dream Team letters

9 “I concur” 10 Be passed along, as a bad habit

11 At the crest of

12 Long, hard look

13 Clad in clogs, say

18 Beef or pork cut

23 Didn’t stick around

25 Unhealthful haze

26 Arterial blockage

28 In any respect

29 Milky stone

30 Go far and wide

31 McJob trainee, often

32 Lovers’ quarrel

33 Common item in religious art

34 Words after “step” or “bet”

38 Mayberry’s Andy Taylor et al.

39 Try for the extra point

40 Fido’s tormentor

42 Contingency ___

43 ___ Band (The Boss’ backup)

45 “Missed by that much!”

46 “Let me clarif y . . .”

47 Sound from a steeple

50 Like movie candy boxes 51 Got to second base, in a way 52 Interrupter’s utterance

53 BrickHeadz toymaker

54 More than just suggest

55 Lee of Marvel Comics

57 Act the worrywart

60 IPA part

61 Like some deals or recruits Thursday’s Answer