FRIDAY CROSSWORD

Across

1 Ketch pair 6 Pre-weekend letters 10 Damson or Mirabelle 14 On the lookout 15 Decimated sea

16 “All __”

17 “It’s the truth!” 18 Old comics character who said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” 19 Apple product 20 Naivete personified, literally

23 It’s needed, but often “not included”

24 Many a Nora Ephron film

28 Old speedster: Abbr. 29 Ice cream holder 31 Bother

32 Co-founder of Artists Against Fracking 33 Abandoned, literally 36 Angry

39 Doce meses

40 Equal

41 Low, literally 46 Medium power 47 Give a hand

48 Tennis strategy

49 Rte. finder 52 Presumes 54 Feature of some Birkenstocks 56 Metaphor for a sitting-pretty situation, literally

60 Modern diary

63 Like father, like son? 64 Accord creator 65 Bridges of Los Angeles County

66 Fourth letter in a famous mnemonic 67 Like Barbara Bush, vis-à-vis Jenna

68 Lincoln or Jackson 69 Twice-monthly tide 70 Works in a garden

Down

1 Rays that can live 50 years

2 Island exchanges 3 Handpicked 4 “Survivor” group

5 Cat burglar’s asset

6 It’s broken at many races 7 Become

8 Classic stage betrayer 9 Request for maximum speed

10 Light bender

11 Sass

12 Gulf War support gp. 13 Pill, say 21 Word with collar or chip

22 American Girl purchase

25 Abs are part of it 26 Some time ago 27 Comic Jay

30 Lacking pizzazz

31 On the wrong side (of) 33 Rocker Nugent

34 One who may go deep 35 Good times

36 Aerobic bit

37 Quite

38 Gym set 42 Hammer-strikesthumb reaction

43 Guys with gifts 44 Particle in a beam 45 “Sesame Street,” e.g. 49 About half of Trenta, at Starbucks

50 Protected, in a way 51 “Femme Fatale” artist, 2011

53 PC fixer

55 Oar fulcrum

57 HBO’s “__ of Easttown”

58 Latin “others”

59 Like some pockets 60 “Doctor Who” airer 61 Island greeting

62 Bit of horse feed