Brain Games #69

ACROSS

1 “You’re oversharing,” in an IM

4 What a stiffed server gets 9 ___-pamby 14 Sickly-looking 15 “I can count

___ hand ...” 16 Psychoanalyst once hooked on cocaine 17 Cloaks, as in mystery

19 Gives, but not for keeps 20 MacNeil who sang “Working

Man”

21 Summer evening droners 23 Political group’s fundraising head 26 Drill hall honcho: Abbr.

29 Smug snicker sound 30 Skin pic? 33 Indo-Canadian singer ___ Naked 36 Money paid for bail, e.g.

40 Cost ___ and a leg 42 Hour, in Italy 43 Equipped like Michael’s boat 44 Actress typecast in horror films 47 Suffix with witch or hatch 48 Parmesan alternative

49 Body builder’s application

51 Number on some greeting cards 52 Finger-shaped coastal offshoots 59 Backspaced over 62 Toronto’s

Casa ___ (castle) 63 Whac-___

(carnival game)

65 Feat depicted by each of this puzzle’s five featured words, fittingly

68 ___ Ste. Marie

(“The Soo,” to locals) 69 Get the lead out? 70 Digital data: Abbr. 71 Charlie Brown’s are “eaten” by a tree

72 Roll in seaweed? 73 Sauce for

72-Across

DOWN

1 Pesky little nobody 2 ’60s reaction to the Beatles 3 Unvocalized part: Abbr. 4 Hide-hair link 5 “Imagine” cowriter 6 Handy sense? 7 Nation south of Nepal

8 Mob tough-guy actor Joe

9 Where to come by Come By

Chance: Abbr. 10 Bailiwick

11 Where dads get duds

Chum

12 13

Gains in Grey

Cup games: Abbr. 18 Possess, Shakespeare-style 22 Johnson of “Laugh-In”

24 Ideal employee for a bossy boss 25 Guevara’s nickname meaning “pal”

27 Dead duck

28 Hot rum quaff

31 Hunk of Greek myth 32 Scheduling

“not sure yet”

33 Iraqi oil city

34 Clad to go undercover, briefly 35 Turned over to another’s care, as kids

37 ___ au vin

38 S.A. locale of Montevideo

39 Pop’s Carly

___ Jepsen

41 Irish actor Stephen 45 Emulate Eeyore 46 Zillions of years 50 Break in the action 53 Cigar butts? 54 Statesman for whom a jacket is named

55 Things that come to a head? 56 Tender beef cuts 57 Retort to a doubter, maybe 58 Cheeky

60 “Chatelaine” shelfmate

61 “Sure, why don’t we?”

63 Use one of the Five Ws

64 Fifth “mois” 66 Finger-to-lips sound 67 “Birthplace of Confederation” prov.