CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across

1 Mustang automaker 5 Honey liquor

9 “__ Mia!”: ABBA musical

14 Nike rival 15 Convention center event

16 Noble gas in some lasers

17 Prepare for a newborn’s arrival

18 Softball glove

19 Entice

20 *Title of many compilation albums

23 Old 1-Across named for a horse

24 Stores

27 Costello partner 30 Sweetie

31 Vote in favor 33 Actress Polo

34 *Not at all talkative 38 Take along

40 ISP pioneer

41 Covert agents 42 *Taylor Swift song with the lyrics “You can’t get rid of it / ‘Cause you remember it ... “

45 “To be,” in French 46 Up to, briefly 47 Directional suffix

48 Agitation

50 White __ machine: sleep aid

52 Sight-singing teaching method

54 *”There’s no way to know yet”

59 Infomercial dude 62 Dancer Falana

63 Drink whose logo has frosted letters

64 LEGO brand for tots 65 “Stay” singer Lisa 66 CBS military drama 67 Reproductive health pro

68 Pop artist Warhol 69 Superlative acronym spelled out by the starts of the answers to the starred clues

Down

1 Long, pointed tooth 2 “Evvie Drake Starts __”: novel by Linda Holmes 3 Counterpart of run in calculating the slope of a line

4 Unit of information 5 Foul ball caught at a game, e.g.

6 Have life

7 Likely will, after “is”

8 Biblical verb

9 “Crash Into Me” rock group Dave __ Band 10 Childish retort

11 Old RKO rival

12 Messy hairdo 13 Industrious insect 21 __ for tat

22 “No need to tell me what happened there” 25 Mineral that resembles gold

26 Passover meals 27 Facing the pitcher 28 German capital 29 S.O.S alternative 30 Kristen of “The Good Place”

32 Strong point

35 Young deer 36 Adversary

37 The “O” of iOS 39 Contributes to, as a group gift

43 Utah city near Provo 44 Soothing song 49 Super Bowl org. 51 Setting of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

52 Faint

53 Lubricated

55 “Boo’d Up” singer __ Mai

56 Danish shoe brand 57 A Skywalker twin 58 For fear that 59 Hullabaloo 60 Name

61 Fuel efficiency stat