JERUSALEM POST DAILY BRAIN TEASERS QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Big drink of water 5 Choice

9 Pesky crawler

14 Like most eggs 15 Making people wait, maybe

16 Wolf pack leader 17 Self-named 2000s sitcom set in Texas 18 Somewhat 19 Landlocked Asian country 20 Good-looking 23 Awesome, in slang

24 Chinese toy 25 Works a wedding 27 Prince in a can? 30 Classic film involving a split personality 32 Chow __

33 Wind heard in Dion’s “Abraham, Martin and John” 35 “The Metamorphosis” author

38 Bag or ball leadin 39 Vegas loser, often 41 Early 11th-century year 42 Couldn’t say no 44 Help to withdraw 45 Many a gospel song

46 Run-scoring out 48 Lao-tzu follower 50 “Peer Gynt Suite” dancer

52 Put on 53 Rainbow mnemonic surname

54 Payback phrase altered to provide a hint to solving four other puzzle answers 60 Jennyanydots’ creator

62 Farm house 63 “The Favourite” actress Stone

64 The “A” in CDA, to an Idahoan 65 Automaker Ferrari

66 Verbal quirks, like “y’know” 67 Coolidge’s VP 68 Texter’s sign-off 69 “Right now!”

DOWN

1 2000 presidential runner-up 2 Pigmented eye layer 3 Some yellow dogs 4 New parent’s purchase

5 Mr. Krabs’ nemesis 6 Dunkin’ Donuts offering

7 U.S. territory until 1896

8 Ancient Persian 9 Pillages

10 Cry after un gol

11 Affectionate idiom that originally referred to a pupil 12 Committee leader

13 Stops

21 Above, to a bard

22 Like some stares

26 Lil Wayne’s “__ Carter III” 27 Asian nurse 28 Princess from Alderaan

29 Perch perspective

30 Stir

31 “I __ red door and

I want it painted black”: Stones

34 Cry buckets 36 Basinger and Cattrall

37 “If it __ broke ... ” 39 Ancient dialogues subject 40 Worldwide anticrime group 43 Ankle pic 45 Charlotte NBA team 47 Autograph seeker 49 Duracell size 50 Draw __ on: aim at

51 Wafer brand 52 Light-headed 55 Very cool rapper? 56 Type of type 57 Radiate

58 Disco hit with arm motions

59 Towards sunrise 61 Phone button with no letters

Across

7 Stimulated, as curiosity (6) 8 Sprightly (6)

9 Zip (4)

10 Soporific drug (8) 11 Understudy (5-2) 13 Wacko (5) 15 Use a scale (5) 17 Wide-beamed shiner (7) 20 Something new (8) 21 ___ wife (turned into a pillar of salt) (4) 22 Well-versed in a language (6) 23 ___ skating (2,4)

Down

1 ___ oneself of (sell off) (6) 2 Wounded (4)

3 Uvula neighbor (7) 4 Greenland coastal inlet (5) 5 Training program (8) 6 Congressional committee subject (6)

12 Scant female nightwear (8) 14 What a dropkicker might injure (7)

16 Ultimate thing (3- 3)

18 Vespers’ opposite (6) 19 Waggish, funny (5) 21 ___-white (above reproach) (4)