CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across

1 Mamba kin

6 Peak

10 Some Dada pieces 14 Cover name

15 __ and proper 16 Exactly

17 “Fingers crossed!” 19 Theater award

20 Art Institute of Chicago area, with “the” 21 “Come with me, Spot!” 22 Slightly ahead

23 One with pointy ears and pointy shoes 24 Actress Thurman 25 Unintentionally reply all, say

27 Longtime NASCAR sponsor

28 Denial

30 Miserly desire

32 Egg layer

33 Catchy pitch

34 Flour used for naan and paratha

37 “We card” cards, for short

38 Novelists Patchett and Petry

39 Grand

42 Open __ night 44 Furry toy spiders that move when screamed at 45 Kansas home of McConnell Air Force Base 49 Capitol Hill fig. 50 Actor who played Clubber Lang in “Rocky III”

51 Annoy

52 Boar’s mate

53 Elba of “Cats” 55 Tirade

57 Floor model 58 Murmurs lovingly 59 Midday hiatus illustrated three times in this puzzle

61 Asia’s vanishing __ Sea

62 Juvenile outburst? 63 Join

64 Mother of Castor and Pollux

65 __ Spunkmeyer

66 Did well together

Down

1 Square dance figure 2 Fútbol cheer

3 Removed with one’s chompers

4 Abrasive tool

5 Bat wood

6 Legal challenge 7 Manitoba people 8 Deceives

9 Genre with introspective lyrics

10 On

11 Endorse without reading, say

12 Makeshift storage container for brushes 13 Becomes more inclined?

18 “That sounds rough!” 22 River through Orsk 24 Employ

26 Trailer park parkers, for short

29 Ryder rival

31 “Stiff” and “Bonk” writer Mary

33 Contribute

34 Out of the ordinary 35 “Sister Carrie” novelist Dreiser

36 E-ZPass stretch, say 37 Educate

40 Virtual citizens in a video game

41 __ Lingus

42 Levity

43 “Eww!”

45 Flinches

46 Happy cry from someone who finally deciphers a Magic Eye picture 47 Salsa ingredient

48 No longer asleep 54 Cuba, por ejemplo 56 Years, in Rome 57 Spy-fi villain in a Nehru jacket

59 Southeast Asian language

60 Software glitch