CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across

1 Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues

7 Hubs: Abbr.

11 Catch

14 Operating mindlessly 15 “Call on me! I know!” 16 Mined resource 17 Getting some sun 18 Like a phenom’s rise to stardom

20 *“Black Widow” costar

22 Placeholder abbr. 25 Court divider

26 Light lunch

27 Spy of kid-lit fame 30 Olympics participant 32 Oxen harnesses 33 “Should that be the case ... ”

35 Costa del __ 36 *Cathedral bench 40 Isr. neighbor

43 Genius Bar pro 44 Capital city on the Andean Plateau 48 Forced

51 Binge watcher’s unit 53 Venomous snake 54 Sound from a fold

55 Came in first

56 *Offer of assistance 61 Much of nursery school

62 Of France

66 Brain scan letters 67 Comparable

68 New York prison in 1971 headlines 69 Mormon initials 70 Enthusiast, colloquially

71 Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues

Down

1 Towel holder

2 De Armas of “Blonde” 3 Happy cry

4 Wide gap

5 Elec., for one

6 Zero

7 Cupid colleague

8 “__ what?”

9 Campus mil. unit 10 “Jeepers!”

11 “Anything goes!” 12 Japanese “thank you” 13 Alison who wrote the graphic memoir “The Secret to Superhuman

Strength”

19 Stone for a Libra

21 No longer working 22 Poetic possessive 23 Steamed bun in Asian cuisine

24 Genesis boat

28 “Parks and __” 29 Sorta

30 Metaphor for no-longer-relevant history 31 Blouse 34 Media-monitoring org.

37 Great Basin native 38 Actor Wallach

39 Is past?

40 Surgical tool

41 Sang some high notes?

42 Colorful sale labels 45 “Kaboom!” 46 Commotion 47 Garden type 49 “Ratatouille” rat who loves gourmet food 50 Greek islander 52 Evidence of workplace gender bias, perhaps 54 Mix

57 Walk in the park, maybe

58 Mideast dignitary 59 Pledge

60 Beauty store chain 63 Fleur-de-__ 64 Curling surface 65 Automobile