CROSSWORD PUZZLE

1 Easily vandalized site 5 “Such a bummer” 10 Spanish greeting 14 City on the Chisholm Trail

15 Grayish brown 16 Norwegian royal name 17 “Catch you on the flip side!”

19 Brick that’s painful to step on

20 Defrost 21 Go-between

23 Silky fabric

25 Wears the crown 27 Qty.

28 Chicago’s Northalsted and Manhattan’s Chelsea, for two 34 Feudal worker

36 “__ Haw”

37 Host

38 Whodunit heroes 40 Examine in detail 42 Inventive types? 43 Fellows

44 Mario __

45 Leaves Thanksgiving dinner before pumpkin pie, maybe

49 Once called 50 Hilarious folks

51 Bozo, in Canada

53 Compendiums 57 Salmorejo, for one 58 Social sci. major 59 Legal turn at some intersections, and a turn in each set of circles in this puzzle

64 Give a little

65 Start of a take

66 “O mio babbino __”: Puccini aria

67 Golfer’s pocketful 68 __ Nast

69 “Their __ Were Watching God”

Down

1 Like fresh nail polish 2 Cookbook writer Garten

3 Persian snack?

4 State with a panhandle 5 Stash away

6 Crew need 7 Connecticut WNBA team

8 Historic Harlem theater

9 Like grass in the morning, compared to other times of day

10 Hindu festival of colors

11 Estadio cries

12 Italian body of water 13 HarperCollins romance imprint

18 Viper tooth 22 Clambake leftovers 23 Fight, colloquially 24 Bedelia of kid-lit 25 Some loaves

26 Purple yam

29 Spa sigh 30 Trans-Siberian Railway city

31 Juice brand with a wave in its logo 32 Official order 33 Volleyball position 35 Faux __

39 Old autocrats 40 Roman god

41 Travel stop

43 “The A-Team” actor 46 __ acid

47 Peanut butter-flavored Girl Scout cookie 48 “Beat it!”

52 Cup fraction 53 Financial liability 54 Drink similar to a Slurpee

55 Vanished

56 Codas

57 Eyelid issue

60 “People Puzzler” channel

61 “You __ one job!” 62 Sonnet preposition 63 Novelist John __ Passos