JERUSALEM POST DAILY BRAIN TEASERS

ACROSS

1 California’s __ Verdes Peninsula

6 Historic shrine 11 Cleaning crew item 14 Beautify

15 Antique photo color

16 Youngest March sister

17 Leaping grab of a would-be homer, say 19 Sleep study letters 20 Based on sound reasoning 21 “Fantastic!”

23 Go after, in a way 24 Division word 27 Hardly at all 29 Christian house of worship in Egypt 33 Word with place or door

34 Legal suspension 35 __ de Cologne 36 Many tax software users

40 Deal with

42 Barge unit 43 Hitchcock’s “__ Window”

45 Cabbage option 46 Northern glacial formation 50 Villainous look 51 “The Burning Giraffe” artist

52 “__ no surprise” 55 Press down 58 Standard salary 61 Contest involving letter placement 62 Souvenir of a Black Forest vacation 65 Thumbs-up vote 66 Authorize 67 SiriusXM channel 5 tune, say 68 Contractor’s no. 69 Grace word

70 Lab activities

DOWN

1 Treaties

2 Parting word in Paris

3 Michaels of “SNL” 4 Marine predator 5 Cold shoulder 6 Climber’s endeavor

7 Meadow

8 On topic

9 Lapel attachments 10 Locale of the surfing mecca Sunset Beach 11 Hard-to-find group

12 __ Cup

13 Y amenity 18 Minor error 22 Six-time NBA AllStar __ Gasol 25 Carol contraction

26 Numeric prefix

28 In this way 29 So__

30 Cheri of “SNL”

31 Uncouth fellow 32 Many-headed monster 33 Chopped pie filling 36 Bibliography abbr.

37 Anticipates

... or, phonetically, what’s found in puzzle answers of more than 10 letters

38 __ room

39 Came out with

41 Agent

44 Color TV pioneer 47 __TV: Turner channel

48 Some pipe joints 49 Parma parting 52 Touch and others

53 Unspoken 54 Guitarist John who played with

Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake 56 Wound cover 57 Seed covering 59 Tony Blair, by birth

60 Fashion magazine since 1945 61 Parting, or half of one

63 NFL’s Browns, on sports crawls 64 Decks, briefly