CROSSWORD

RUNNING HOT AND COLD

ACROSS 1 Dull in color 5 Hard-___ (uncompromising) 10 “Got it” 14 Get up 15 Pizzeria allure 16 Avoid deliberately 17 Still unresolved 19 Bunch of yaks 20 Organized crime group 21 Vision-related 23 Nueve - siete 24 ___ sticks (imitation seafood) 26 Hoity-toity types 28 Sweetie pie 31 Splinter’s species, in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” 33 Wait for everyone else 36 Longoria who played Dora the Explorer’s mom 37 Quite often 39 Window sealant 40 Go on and on 44 Helped out 45 Devoted fan 46 “___ you ready to order?” 47 Sweatshirt part 49 Compete on snow 50 Exasperates 51 Still with us 53 Large-scale story 55 Gear tooth 57 Maximum, e.g. 59 City south of Scottsdale 63 Actress Falana 65 Do some magic 67 Ready for business 68 Register drawers 69 Obligation 70 Discreet attention-getter 71 Streamlined 72 Fast feline

DOWN 1 Beat-keeping instrument 2 Morning TV host Kelly 3 “Yeah, right!” 4 Rebuke following an unkind remark 5 “I’m gonna pass” 6 Round, no-bake cookie treats 7 Bar in a hotel room 8 Radiates 9 Audacious 10 “. . . sorta” 11 Shows sorrow 12 Currency in Cannes 13 Winds down 18 Road surfacing goop 22 Take for one’s own use 25 ___ News (paper published in Riyadh) 27 Unfocused picture 28 Versions to be debugged 29 To no ___ (fruitlessly) 30 America’s national birds 32 Hypes up 34 Adjective for a sharp contrast 35 Little kids 38 Stovetop whistler 41 On an even ___ (balanced) 42 Ibuprofen brand name 43 Short scissor cut 48 Kicks out of an apartment 50 Cold snack on a stick 52 Inbox pileup 54 “___ the least I can do” 55 Sound from a hoof 56 “Clumsy me!” 58 Landmass that sounds like part of a supermarket 60 Diner handout 61 Fruit used to make saladitos 62 Queen of Arendelle 64 Crawler at a picnic 66 Request