Crossword

ACROSS

1 Peach stone 4 Container for gratuities

10 Dough dispensers 14 Period of time 15 Single- celled organ

ism

16 ___ row ( stretch in many a college town)

17 Scoring partner? 19 Piece in a mosaic 20 Looking down on 21 They become wind instruments when “f” is added

23 In the manner of 24 Alaskan city on the

Bering Sea

25 The ___ Moines

Register

26 Faith with Five

Pillars

28 Got going

30 “My deepest apolo

gies”

32 Khaki color

33 Use a needle and

thread

34 Wet dirt 35 Libertarians’ 2020 presidential candidate

38 Small island

39 Skin pic

40 Long period of time 41 1992 Stacey Dash rom- com featuring a credit card con 43 Antagonist in

“Coco”

47 Suffuse

48 E. R. employees 49 Real comedian 50 Jacuzzi product 51 Come to a point 54 Stave off

55 Trivia host’s clue 57 Like a straight

shooter

59 Gucci of fashion

fame

60 “The Answer Is ...”

memoirist Alex 61 Word paired with

“neither”

62 Roach or rat 63 Jousting horses 64 Donkey

DOWN

1 Nuts in some pies 2 Sci- fi collection first published in 1950 3 Site of a University of Washington satellite campus

4 Far from feral 5 Unruly kid 6 Combined, as assets

7 Nativity scene figure

8 Illegally assist 9 Doneness option

for a burger 10 Toward the stern 11 Testing phase 12 Common duck 13 Hot and humid 18 News anchor’s

hand- off line 22 Khloe, to Kim,

informally

25 Signify

27 “What gall!”

29 ___ Mahal

30 “Get it?”

31 Deeds list them 33 Drill instructor’s

rank, often: Abbr. 35 Groups that impro

vise songs

36 Bit of hope, meta

phorically 37 Daughter’s sibling,

perhaps

38 Put together, like an

anthology 41 Unfortunate occur

rence

42 Need for catching

butterflies

43 Coat, as with

chocolate

44 Raw or burnt color 45 Statues’ midsec

tions

46 Frolicking marine

mammals 48 Zellweger with two

Oscars

52 Tunneling insects 53 Strong wine 54 Inquires

56 Day care enrollee 58 Benedict’s nick

name, maybe