CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Something sticking out of Frankenstein's neck
5 Voting coalition 9 Belittle
14 Classic Langston Hughes poem
15 “___ Land” (2016 Best Picture nominee) 16 French author who said “An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself”
17 Alabama senator Jones
18 Home to Zion National Park
19 Walk with heavy steps
20 adj. under the influence of a drug
23 Long, boring task 24 ___-blogging
25 adv. across a barrier or intervening space
30 Singer DiFranco
31 Smoked salmon
32 Bonus
34 “Can I get a hand here?!”
36 Like William Henry Harri son, among U.S. presidents
39 Crowd favorite not getting nominated for an Oscar, e.g.
40 Cough drop brand
42 Apply carelessly, as paint
44 Fresh ___ daisy
45 n. spirit, animation
49 Heading with check boxes below it
50 Main part of a selfie
51 Ones who produced the clues for 20-, 25- and 45Across
57 Sports center
58 Big name in in-flight Internet
59 “About ___” (2002 movie)
61 Enliven
62 Midmonth date
63 Target of splicing
64 Emails that tell you you’ve won the lottery, e.g.
65 Fit one inside the other
66 Energy units
DOWN
1 Creation of an Olympic city hopeful 2 “Then again …,” in texts
3 Birthplace of Muhammad Ali
4 Switch between windows, e.g.
5 Beat badly
6 Behind schedule
7 “Frozen” snowman
8 U.S. marshal role for John Wayne
9 Brand of probiotic yogurt
10 Makes the rounds?
11 Mine: Fr.
12 Battle of the bulges?
13 FS1 competitor
21 Sound that signifies the end of a basketball game
22 Actress Vardalos
25 When “S.N.L.” ends on the East Coast
26 Louis ___, French king who was guillotined
27 Consumer giant that makes Bounty, for short
28 “Cimarron” novelist
29 Extinguish
30 “That hits the spot!”
33 LeBron James’s org.
35 Credit card designation
37 Confucian path
38 Popular left-leaning news site
41 Nestlé candy popular at movie houses
43 Humdrum
46 Veiled oath?
47 Bean
48 Mammoth time period
51 Delays
52 Viking explorer
53 “Hercules” spinoff
54 Went by motorcycle, say
55 Census data
56 iTunes download
60 “Suh-weet!”