CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rapper in court

6 Simpson trial judge Lance

9 Octagon or oval

14 Tiny mites

15 Barents Sea state, briefly 16 Oberon of “Wuthering Heights” 17 Onstage curtain 18 Mortar trough 19 Asian mountain sheep (var) 20 Concentrates 23 Japan or Canton suffix 24 Weep convulsively

25 Tongue depressor sound 26 Obituary datum 28 Dry run 30 Biathlon gear

32 Like ink, to Byron

33 Yiddish busybody

35 Felt ill

36 Concentrates

40 Czech circumflex relative

41 Where birds go in winter

42 Edible Andean tubers 43 “Ivanhoe” author 45 Hunt for beaver 49 Married 50 Match end, maybe

51 Boise’s state, in brief 53 Zsa Zsa’s sister 54 Concentrates 58 Bingo, bridge, etc. 59 Compete (for) 60 Tendency

61 Time on the job

62 Goof, big-time

63 Oklahoma tribe

64 Razz 65 “Of course!” 66 Like most movies

DOWN

1 Pilot light, e.g. 2 Point the finger at 3 Fluctuates

4 “Layla” singer Clapton

5 Citrus fruit

6 Lives in

7 Fled off with

8 Painful experience

9 Badminton tactic 10 Thyme, e.g.

11 Moot 12 Theatre fan 13 Expensive fish, these days

21 Daybreaks, poetically 22 ___ Dawn Chong of “Quest for Fire”

27 Argonauts’ position

29 Young’uns

31 Unkind nickname

32 Pieces of ___

34 Mouse-sighting comics scream

35 Exterminator’s quarry Waste away

36 37

Professor’s milieu

38 Microscopic aquatic life

39 Run circles around

40 “___ do you do?”

43 Do some schussing

44 Pass on

46 Change chairs 47 Repay, in a way 48 Cushioned 50 Have a little bite 52 Olivier, notably 55 Sears dept. 56 Filly’s father 57 ___ Major

58 Ntl. levy