Crossword

ACROSS

1 Crunchy deli sandwich, briefly

4 ___ Jones

7 Pothole filler

14 Scuba gear attachment 16 Certain clam

17 Picked up from a field trip? 18 Tightly packed fish 19 Person from Jaipur 20 “True ___!” (slangy “Indeed!”)

21 Rice or Sexton

22 Bible book whose title

anagrams to “raze” 23 Votes in favor

25 Kvetching cries

26 Beyonce, to Jay-Z 28 Fish-fowl link 30 Rembrandt’s “The Night

Watch,” e.g.

32 Notable period

33 Cowboys quarterback

Prescott

34 Wavy corn chips

38 Stir up

40 Get the show on the road 42 Fully cooked

43 Fortify

45 “Uh-uh”

46 Legume Mendel studied 47 Hump day follower: Abbr. 48 “How about that!”

49 ___ prof.

50 Key often pressed after Ctrl 53 To be, in Le Havre

55 ___ Reader

57 Silver controller?

59 Former POTUS Coolidge 60 Sisters’ daughters 63 Eco-friendly holder of

groceries

65 Word sung in ads featuring

LiMu Emu

66 Set free

67 Johns

68 Confirm, as a password 69 Stuff edited by CRISPR 70 Famed boy king

DOWN

1 Indonesia’s “Island of the Gods” 2 Property right 3 *Expo 4 Tunisian money 5 *Sure thing in a courtroom 6 Married

7 Test for purity

8 *Annual speech that a designated survivor doesn’t attend

9 Part of WPM

10 “Mary ___ little lamb ...” 11 Acid type in proteins

12 1974 biopic about comedian

Bruce

13 Arboretum sights 15 Tournament award 20 *2000s Jessica Alba series with gothic themes 24 Address for a knight 26 Used to be 27 Wrinkle remover 29 Muffin grain 31 Pot-draining aid 35 Hush-hush, and a hint to the starred answers’ starts

36 Two in 11?

37 Pew, for one

39 Like a glowing jack-o’lantern

41 Singer Carly ___ Jepsen 44 Revolutionary Guevara 49 Slippery as ___ 50 Pianist Rubinstein 51 Sierra ___ (Guinea neighbor)

52 Duke or earl

54 Wild party, slangily

56 It’s thicker than the fibula 58 Gas for signs 61 Question to Brutus 62 The “S” of iOS: Abbr. 64 Spam producer 65 British Inc.