C rossword
ACROSS
1 Some water
bearers
6 “M*A*S*H”
co-star Alan
10 Dressed
14 “Kate & ___”
(1980s sitcom)
15 Tandoori chicken
accompaniment
16 “In time we
___ that which we often fear”: Shak.
17 First American to
orbit the earth
19 Littlest speck
20 Born
21 Flinch, say
22 Made a choice
23 Fancy “so”
25 Selma march leader who served 17 terms in Congress
27 Pageant prize
29 Not learned 30 Introductory
course?
31 Throws in
34 Its HQ is sometimes called “Crypto City”
35 Winter underwear … or what appear four times in this puzzle
39 “Eureka!”
42 Damage, so to
speak
43 Football penalty
markers
47 “Gracias!”
response
50 With 63-Down, boxer who retired undefeated in 2007
51 Only U.S. president elected under the Federalist Party
56 Event with a royal
court 57 Barber’s razor
sharpener
58 Talk to shrilly
60 Dawg
61 Norse god portrayed in film by Chris Hemsworth
62 Broncos QB who won backto-back Super Bowls
64 Bridle strap
65 “The Clan of the Cave Bear” heroine
66 “How about that!”
67 Logical operators that output
“true” only if both inputs are true
68 Dry run
69 Like many
bathroom floors
DOWN
1 Refrigerator decorations
2 Largest country
in Africa
3 Bootleg, e.g.
4 Goose egg
5 Oracle
6 Yearly record
7 Jousting weapon
8 Italian poet who wrote “Nature is the art of God”
9 ___ Taylor
10 Contribute
11 Like some
Hmong
12 Bears witness
13 Its shores have the lowest landbased elevation on Earth
18 Fish with
“snowflake” and “sawtooth” varieties
22 Have title to
24 Unwritten
26 One might be made on a birthday
28 Kerfuffle
31 In the past
32 CD players?
33 . 36 Sports org. with more than a thousand members
37 Sports org. in which five members have bird names
38 *How rude!*
39 2019 Brad Pitt sci-fi movie whose title means “to the stars”
40 Pagan
41 IOS alternative
44 Court failure 45 “Hallelujah!”
46 Siberian sled
dog
48 Decorates
49 Fist bump
52 “Baloney!”
53 Busy places at
Christmas
54 Food fight sound
effect
55 Old saying
59 Nincompoop
62 Make a fast
stop?
63 See 50-Across
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