DAILY BRAIN TEASERS

ACROSS

1 Buckwheat noodle 5 “Blam!”

10 Wander

14 AFB no-show 15 Sports venue 16 Profoundly bad 17 Baton-passing race with co-ed teams

19 Time in office 20 United

21 Desire

22 Second longest African river

23 Go along with 25 Tennis star Osaka

26 German white wine with a high sugar content 30 Jimmy Kimmel’s network

31 Yardstick unit 32 Bruno, to Mirabel, in “Encanto”

33 Now and __ 36 Vision-correcting surgery

38 Not very much 39 Slump 40 Iron-rich leafy vegetable

41 Disc golf number 43 Start of something great 47 Helps a thief, maybe

48 Annual fact book 51 Bedroom noise 52 Wrinkly citrus fruit

53 Miracle-__: fertilizer brand 54 Wide-eyed 55 Surprised shout when a spot on the wall starts moving, and what can be said about 17-, 26-, and 43-Across

58 Source of inspiration 59 Connective tissue

60 Inky stain

61 Full collections 62 Coin flip call 63 __-serif

DOWN

1 Pago Pago’s land 2 In debt

3 Stocky dogs 4 Brewery order 5 Lesson one might get a kick out of?

6 “We __ amused” 7 Attack with snowballs, say 8 “I’m __ roll!” 9 Route 10 Overhaul 11 Kitchen glove 12 Shenandoah

Valley state 13 Muppet who refers to himself in the third person

18 Socially inept sort

22 Yard sale payment

24 Actor McGregor

25 Aids for airplane napping

27 Like proofed dough

28 Suffix on pasta names

29 Supreme being 33 Vanilla extract amt.

34 Rant 35 Confidence builder

37 “Beef” actress Wong

38 Painter’s calculation

40 Toy for a windy day

42 Confess

44 Joins the flow of traffic

45 Had trouble swallowing 46 Bassett who plays Marvel’s Queen Ramonda 49 Noble gas used in welding

50 Is priced at 51 __ Club: bulk-buying chain 52 Annapolis military sch. 55 “More or less” suffix

56 Knotted neckwear 57 Scale units: Abbr.