Crossword
Across
1 One who settles arguments
8 Late bloomers 14 “Stay strong!”
15 “Awesome!”
16 Like some information on food labels
17 Lady Bird Johnson’s real given name
18 Newspaper unit: Abbr.
19 Plying with wine and roses, say
20 Old TV screens, for short
23 Like Nevada among all US states
25 Non-P.C. suffix
26 ___ polloi 27 Laugh riot
28 Heading for the fence?
30 “Ta-ta for now!”
33 ___ to one’s ears
37 Scarlet stigma 38 Fish that’s being reeled in
41 Hit the top in Tetris, e.g.
42 Maker of Star Wars and Indiana Jones video games
44 Longtime record label for Elton John and Mary J. Blige
47 “Love ___” (Beatles song)
48 Sch. on the bank of the Charles River
49 Kingston dude
52 Veteran
54 Capital of the Land of the Midnight Sun
55 Optimistic bridge calls
57 They’re parked in parks
59 People who might greet you by saying “Talofa, afio mai!” (“Hello, welcome!”) 60 Word in many a personal ad
64 Brian’s pal on “Family Guy”
65 Former “Weekend Update” co-anchor 66 Hungers (for)
67 Its atomic number is 39
Down
1 Kind of order … or a hint to this puzzle’s unusual construction
2 Stephen of “V for Vendetta”
3 OPEC units: Abbr.
4 Classic Camaros
5 Tropical tuber
6 “Nothing is easier than to denounce the ___; nothing is more difficult than to understand him”: Dostoyevsky
7 Boom box button
8 Visibly embarrassed
9 Reach, as an altitude
10 Push
11 Singer Gormé
12 Comes down
13 Retrieves, as balls
17 British runner Sebastian
19 ___ Gaston, first African-American manager to win a World Series
20 “Just relax!”
21 Loggers’ contest 22 Isn’t on the level
24 Queen, for one
27 Bit of a giggle
29 “___ yellow ribbon …”
31 Modern educational acronym
32 Something you feel in your gut?
34 Things most people follow
35 Word before “Yesterday” in a Tony Bennett hit and “Tomorrow” in a Sammy Kaye hit
36 Green sauce
39 “That’s simply lovely!”
40 Brandy label letters
43 Ones calling people out?
45 Lead singer of Nirvana
46 Flared dresses
49 Old-fashioned
50 Almost circular
51 Setting of Hercules’ first labor
53 License to drill, for short?
54 Schindler with a list
56 “Hey there, tiger!”
58 Let it all out
60 Barnyard adjunct
61 “___ Ruled the World” (1996 Nas hit)
62 Opposite of old, in Oldenburg
63 It might precede a shower