CROSSWORD
PUZZLES
GRIN AND BEAR IT
ACROSS
1 Squandered, as a lead
5 Jared of “Lonely Hearts” 9 Credit card action 14 Suffix denoting wealth 15 Weights, slangily 16 Clad like many superheroes 17 He caught Don Larsen’s perfecto
19 Manage to avoid
20 Saw wood, so to speak 21 Submitted, as a
40-Down
23 Send to blazes
26 Usual tic-tac-toe result
27 Leader of Motown’s Miracles
34 Reflexology place
35 “Born Free” 2-Down
36 Neanderthal’s abode
37 “Finding Dory” studio
39 CPR pro
41 Maris who surpassed Ruth
42 Kept from swelling, perhaps
43 Often-buggy software version
45 Comics bark
46 Rough Riders leader, informally 51 Geological stretch 52 Manx cat’s lack 53 Cosmetic that’s sometimes flavored
58 Shopaholic’s binge
62 Standard Windows font
63 “The Seasons” composer, affectionately
66 Barista’s artistic creation 67 Carrier with blue and white jets
68 “Enough ___!”
69 Started the kitty
70 Lockup unit
71 Addition column
DOWN
1 Baffin and Hudson
2 Big cat
3 Descartes’ “therefore”
4 Queer duck
5 Factor in club selection
6 Drop an easy one
7 Grounds for a civil suit 8 Running by itself 9 First part of an act 10 What a surfer may catch
11 Device for an Apple Pencil 12 Mani-___ (salon job) 13 Forbidden fruit site 18 Chemistry lab vessel
22 BBQ slab unit
24 Gibson of “Lethal Weapon”
25 “The Big Board,” initially
27 Kitchen rack item
28 ___ out (at the limit)
29 Stallone’s one-man army
30 Sgt. or cpl.
31 Katey of “Sons of Anarchy”
32 For all to see
33 Maker of squishy balls
34 BBQ rod
38 Introduce to the mix
40 Course conclusion, often
41 Hold spellbound
44 Oolong or gunpowder
47 Cried out loudly
48 Young friend of Pooh
49 Like freelance work, often
50 City on the Rio Grande
53 In ___ land (spacey)
54 1979-81 hostage site
55 Brad of “Moneyball”
56 Scandal suffix
57 Black Friday event
59 Strikeout king Nolan
60 Brickell or Sedgwick
61 Phases out
64 Norton, to Kramden
65 The whole shebang