CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across
1 Period after Shrove Tuesday
5 Lyricist Gershwin
8 Inca __: Peruvian soft drink
12 Mideast rulers
14 Blues’ org.
15 Passing words?
17 *Bounce around the Caribbean, say
19 Tropical ray
20 Beg
21 “It’s open!”
22 Brought into a discussion
25 *1983 film that won an Oscar for Best Original Song
27 Adjust after a wrong turn
29 Courts
30 “The Waste Land” poet
31 Place to make a round trip?
32 Lab animal
35 Greeting between members of an exclusive club, and what’s hiding in the answer to the starred clues?
40 Sked “Don’t know yet”
41 Pack it in
42 Petco Park player
43 Apiece
45 Animal that can run using its flippers
47 *School of Hindu philosophy
51 Antique car design feature
52 Houston team
53 French bread?
55 Sun block?
56 *Was completely clueless
60 Pueblo dwelling material
61 Country rockers Little __ Town
62 Willing parties?
63 Just scrapes (by)
64 Smelter’s supply
65 Show appreciation at a poetry slam
Down
1 Lanai wreath
2 First responders, briefly
3 Bupkis
4 Feature of a magician’s stage
5 Gulp down quickly
6 “Darkwing Duck” character Dr. __ Dendron
7 French peak
8 __ dragon
9 2000s first family
10 Tablecloth fabric
11 Top story?
13 NBC sketch show
16 Well-reasoned
18 Skillful
21 A major, for one
22 Peak
23 Big star
24 Writer Jong
26 “__ Lake”
28 Colorado’s Sleeping __ Mountain
31 Sonar operator?
32 Pie chart lines
33 Ohio hometown of poet Rita Dove
34 Cold temperatures
36 Support pros
37 “omg so funny!”
38 Tub with jets
39 50-50, facetiously
43 Wrap
44 Fangirls over, perhaps
45 Greasy fingerprint, maybe
46 Merit
47 Programming language with a coffee cup logo
48 Lines that break the fourth wall
49 “No harm, no foul!”
50 Show again
54 “I’m excited!”
56 “The White Lotus” network
57 Annoying racket 58 Notable stretch of time
59 Nile cobra