PUZZLES CROSSWORD

DROP SHOTS

ACROSS

1 ___ Lock (keyboard key) 5 “Everything’s fine!” 9 Roti flour

13 ___ vera gel 14 See romantically 15 Sear on a grill 16 Mechanical learning technique 17 First person to receive two Nobel Prizes 19 Cleopatra or Tutankhamun, e.g.

21 Utensil for flipping

22 Used a stool

23 Get bigger

25 “Right you ___!”

26 Side that might be

fried

28 Resident of

ancient Cuzco

30 Jiaozi additive

33 Word before “contract” or “construct”

35 Carrot or daikon,

e.g.

36 Org. with pesticide storage regulations

37 “Funny!”

38 Month before

febrero

40 Air problem

41 Tuna in a poke

bowl

42 Somewhat

43 Crazy Horse’s

people

45 “You betcha!”

46 Nickname for Louis Armstrong’s birth cit y

47 Lash line growth

48 ___ de Janeiro

49 Place to dock

51 Vegetable found in the Swahili word for “meat”

54 Deadlock

58 Up to the task

60 Implausible

62 Soy sauce

ingredient 63 Worry

64 Great Lake bordering New York

65 Joint used in

reverse lunges

66 Big bovines

67 Caribbean liquors

68 “The ___ the limit” DOWN 1 Complains

2 Lei Day expression

3 Crunchy bit in a

sandwich

4 Person with foresight 5 Coeur d’Alene’s state 6 Spanish for “sea” 7 ___ Spunkmeyer 8 Remain calm under pressure 9 Very sharp 10 Drive-___ car wash 11 Lobster part 12 Drywall measure 17 Something to lift people’s spirits 18 Diamond unit 20 City in India’s

Golden Triangle

24 Surveillance setup

27 Sportage

automaker

29 Partner of neither

30 Information storage unit 31 Dalmatian mark 32 Lady who said “Talented, brilliant, incredible . . .”

33 “Pretty Little Liars” actress Mitchell

34 Mount Ka’ala’s

island

39 Nothing

40 Compete like

Seba Johnson

42 Fennel relative

44 Group founded by Ethel Percy Andrus

48 River floaters

50 Some frozen

beverages

52 Bowling venue

53 ___ out (allots) 54 Nowhere near

certain

55 Actress Rooney

56 Early school

program, for short

57 Beigeish color

59 Poses a question to 61 Homophone of “hymn”