SKATES’ MATES

ACROSS

1 Bet accepter

6 Overwhelmed with humor 10 Hero cheese, for short 14 “Pokemon” cartoon genre 15 Fare picker-upper 16 Polygon figure 17 Not called for 18 Strike from a list 19 “The Simpsons” tavern

20 Word after price or phone

21 Doodlers’ tablets

24 Far from trusting

26 Raspy-sounding

27 Go from URL to URL

29 Comes down in buckets

31 It conquers all, it ’s said

32 Be half asleep

34 Puppy’s bite

37 Some rehab candidates

39 Flatow of public radio

40 Drops, as pounds

42 ___ judicata (decided case)

43 Proverbial small town

46 Tannery tools

47 Kangaroo court penalties

48 Missile engine, perhaps

50 Indoor flight

53 Model’s asset

54 Crunchy veggie

57 Barbecue morsel

60 Tarzan’s troop

61 Each, slangily

62 Rapper Elliott with four Grammys

64 Monopoly payment

65 Reason for a small craft advisory

66 “Set Fire to the Rain” singer

67 Momentous times

68 Loaf pair

69 “Drake” poet Alfred

DOWN

1 Like a tuned string

2 The younger “Frozen” princess 3 Gentle treatment, symbolically

4 Outback runner

5 Peanut butter candy brand

6 Reporter’s piece

7 Tibetan holy man

8 Maze goal

9 Some Halloween characters 10 Gaucho’s prairie 11 Loud, like a waterfall 12 Orchestra section 13 Curving billiards shot

22 Respect, in urban areas

23 Great Lakes mnemonic

25 Still-life vessel

27 Out-of-focus image

28 Pete with 4,256 hits

29 Bagel’s shape, geometrically

30 McGregor of “Star Wars”

33 Patronize a

15-Across

34 Home to football’s Giants, really

35 Like some rumors

36 Furtive “hey, you!”

38 1973 resignee Agnew

41 Easter entrees

44 Giving a keynote

45 Burger tycoon Ray

47 Precedent setters

49 Quarterback great Troy

50 Hiccups cure, it ’s said

51 Icicle shape

52 Bout site

53 Cathedral organ features

55 Distance between wingtips

56 Couldn’t keep a secret

58 “Survivor” locale, maybe

59 Passes for top seeds

63 Ceremony vow Friday’s Answer