DAILY BRAIN TEASERS
ACROSS
1 Shapeless mass 5 Syst. with hand gestures
8 Zac of “High School Musical” 13 German automaker 14 Ill-mannered sort 16 Like some dips 17 Metropolitan haze
18 Skin care balm 19 Argon and oxygen
20 Rebate redeemer’s requirement, usually
23 Acct. earnings 24 “Arrested Development” actor Will 25 Patterned fabric 28 Manolo Blahnik creation
29 Long story 32 Branch
33 __ deco
35 Moving vehicle 37 Golf course rental 39 Motto for a socially responsible corporation 43 Motown genre 44 Reddit tell-all sesh
45 Attempt
46 “Mean Girls” screenwriter Tina 47 “Halt!” 49 Curved foot part 51 Live (in) 53 “Lucifer” actress Helfer
55 __ Lingus 56 Academic ultimatum
62 Egypt’s continent 63 Colorado Plateau natives 64 Well-behaved 66 “Carol” Oscar nominee Mara 67 Meh-worthy 68 “Reservation Dogs” streaming service
69 Donkeys
70 With 71-Across, Destiny’s Child or the Supremes, and an apt description of this puzzle’s longest answers
71 See 70-Across DOWN
1 __-relief
2 Shapeless mass 3 Smell
4 Bloc in the fossil fuels lobby, collectively
5 To the back, on a boat
6 Song for one 7 Shower scrubber
8 Passes into law 9 Seafood snack in a shell
10 “Undone” voice actress Salazar
11 Dollar bills
12 Org. with opening and closing bells 15 Admonish
16 Fantasy brute
21 Former
NBA great Shaquille
22 Dig up
25 Lightsout music
26 Double
Stuf cookies
27 “See ya” 28 Tolerate
30 Social blunder 31 Disney mermaid 34 Stephen of “The Crying Game” 36 “All Things Considered” airer 38 “bye 4 now” 40 Story’s framework
41 Assorted 42 Actress Winona 48 Does some comparison shopping 50 Like some cargo carriers 52 “Native Son” novelist Richard
54 “My stars!”
55 Greek storyteller 56 Prefix with sail 57 Some fuzzy tabloid pics
58 Dudes
59 Mexican money 60 Like unripe grapes 61 Hindu spring festival
65 Couple