CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

1 Starts a triathlon 6 Airplane assignments 11 Short lines at the register?

14 Chocolate source 15 “I’ve __ up to here!” 16 Swelter

17 *When “you can see forever,” per the classic song

19 Watch chain

20 Top __

21 Requests

22 DVR pioneer

23 Rich cake

25 Air purifying gadget 28 Skateboarding star Tony

30 *Genetic lab project 32 Qatari bigwigs

34 “__ I say more?” 35 *Almost got the gold 42 Word on Irish euros 43 Finnish hot spot 44 *Long, curved barrette 50 Academic acronym 51 Glasses for bookworms 52 Court attire

54 Itch

55 Han who said,

“It’s not wise to upset a Wookiee” 56 [shrug]

59 __ sale

60 Quantity applied to dubious advice, and what’s found in the answer to each starred clue

64 Put away

65 Very serious

66 Leading

67 __ light bulb

68 Cookie source

69 Ready to flow

DOWN

1 Person in Paisley 2 Diminish

3 “Gosh, no one is happy with me!”

4 PC alternative

5 __ power

6 Like some martinis 7 AirPods holders

8 Total

9 Hermana de la madre 10 Farm pen

11 Florence gallery with Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” 12 Tried and true 13 Seven of Nine of “Star Trek,” for one 18 Founded, for short 22 Pewter component 24 Gumbo vegetable 25 Cold, slushy treat 26 World Cup chants 27 Network connections 28 She/__ pronouns

29 “No question is too personal” session, for short 31 “Yosemite Valley Winter” photographer Adams

33 Part of an act 36 Storyteller

37 Tolkien creatures 38 Wholesale quantity 39 Get the better of 40 U-turn from SSW 41 Hydroelectric power source

44 Merciless

45 Gas up?

46 Hounded

47 Stand buy

48 Wrinkle remover 49 Casual top

53 Awesome, in showbiz 55 Etsy, e.g.

57 “Frozen” sister

58 Start of an address 60 Shoot the breeze 61 Color TV pioneer 62 North Sea diving bird 63 Transgression