CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across
1 Berry from Brazilian palms
5 Hides from animals 10 Sanctuary area 14 Game time? 15 “Dances With Wolves” distribution company
16 Haunted house sound 17 Raccoon, facetiously 19 Romance novelist Kennedy
20 Improvises 21 Minimal-compliance hiring practice
23 Google __
25 Gel
26 Low island 27 Tanzanite and black opal
31 Out
33 “Go me!”
35 Turkish coins 37 Country rock band co-founded by Jim Messina
38 Fictional Gantry 40 Sheet of glass 41 Breadth
43 Singular source of dissent
45 Geometry numbers 47 “That explains everything”
48 “How unexpected” 49 Includes, briefly 51 Memorization technique
52 Snarky remarks 55 Polymer products 59 Legendary 60 Footwear for a private eye?
62 Home to the oldest university in the Americas
63 Proportional gift 64 Soon, quaintly 65 Education acronym 66 Base stealer’s asset 67 Sits in the sun
Down
1 Flour that’s stone ground in a chakki 2 Poutine morsel 3 Kazakh/Uzbek border name
4 Skinny, so to speak 5 Milieu of Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish 6 Detergent brand
7 Fuzz
8 Chore list items 9 Unclogged, as a pipe 10 “Indeed”
11 Bust 12 Cuban movement? 13 Adversary 18 Phased-out streaming service
22 “There are others” abbr.
24 Get a whiff of
27 Tears (up)
28 Seed germinated on toothpicks in some science projects
29 Goal for some Olympians
30 “Lost in Yonkers” playwright
32 Be respectful, in a way 34 General sense
36 One who looks to the future?
39 Edited
42 Per
44 Primary concern 46 Turf Builder brand 48 German wheels 50 Lose one’s shirt? 53 Trick
54 Fill and then some 56 New Rochelle school designated a university in 2022
57 Adjective associated with some 1980s fashion 58 IDs since 1936
61 Sara Ramirez’s “And