‘from a to b’

ACROSS

1 Alligator ___ (avocado)

5 Trite

10 What goes sideways?

14 Instrument described as “an ill wind”

15 Justice Samuel

16 Prince Charles, e.g.

17 Cheap beer to sip while golfing?

20 Cared for a friend’s cat, say

21 Harris who made history in 2020

22 Mathematician Lovelace

23 Issa of Insecure

25 “That hurt!”

26 Name within “Benedict”

27 Chant from a crowd that hates

Thunderbolt ports?

30 “Frontline” channel

32 Wintry mix

33 What may require a 20-sided die:

Abbr.

36 Was on TV

38 Above, to a bard

39 Diet that avoids processed food

41 Confucian path

42 Figurine of a “notorious” justice?

45 Santa ___, California

46 Oddity

48 Slob’s opposite

50 Part of a precarious chain

51 Hiss sources

52 Utensils for detangling spaghetti?

56 Dragon’s burst of smoke

59 New Zealand native

60 Toy for a windy day

64 Great Plains people

65 Flashiness, informally

66 Bus. class

67 Special brownie ingredient

68 Old Pontiac

69 Like pink hair

DOWN

1 Daddy’s partner, maybe

2 Went out like the tide

3 Major artery

4 Shot callers

5 They’re settled when they’re picked

up

6 ___-country (music genre)

7 Dr. Fauci’s agcy.

8 Breakfasted or lunched

9 Strand, as one’s babysitter

10 Buddy

11 Was on TV again

12 Lit path on a train

13 “Daily” food in a prayer

18 Rowing tools

19 Uncultured people

24 Memorial speech

25 A Midsummer Night’s Dream king

27 One of many for a Q-tip

28 Pea, for a pea plant

29 Thirdlove undergarment

30 Upright or grand

31 Ride for a Quidditch player

34 Endurance exercise for abs

35 Wish granter

36 Ever so slightly

37 Liquid-plumr alternative

39 Morning-after pill brand

40 Acorn makers

43 Word that means “flowers,” with or

without “ss” at its center

44 Musical set in France, to fans

47 Less than pleased

49 Assigned work to

53 “Rats!”

54 Cover in chocolate, maybe

55 Ricelike pasta

56 “Bam!”

57 Colorado native

58 Enemy

61 Slick, as a road

62 One has a nail

63 Apt word for this slot