The Daily Crossword
ACROSS
1 Publisher Alfred
6 Spur to action
10 Mus. key with three
sharps
14 Lost cause
15 Overconfident
racer of fable
16 Hawaiian island
17 Hawaii or Alaska
18 Oil gp. that
includes 57-Down
19 Take a load off
20 Horse sense
23 Pool tool
24 Try to win
25 Colonel Sanders
facial feature
28 Main attraction
32 Lab maze navigator
33 Letter flourish
34 “... good witch,
__ bad witch?”
35 Angry or achy
36 Test proctor’s
reminder
40 Soap units
43 Gold in Granada
44 Semiaquatic
salamanders
48 The “A” in “IPA”
49 Hard-boiled genre
52 Like Easter eggs
before the hunt
54 Duct opening?
55 Debate side
56 Its measurements include liters and grams
60 Squared up
62 Tax-sheltered
plans: Abbr.
63 More than suggest 65 Partial view?
66 Scandinavian
language
67 Circular
68 Decrease
69 Organic compound
70 Sch. district VIPS
DOWN
1 56-Across wts.
2 On the fence 3 Winning like crazy
4 Korda of ’80s-’90s tennis
5 Library amenity
6 Camera buff, for short
7 Shoots the breeze
8 Utah city near Provo
9 10-point star polygon
10 Main blood vessel
11 Orchestra leader
12 Contented sighs
13 Stick (out)
21 Years and years
22 Word after fuel or fly
23 LP successors
26 Cup handle
27 Season after
printemps
29 Erma Bombeck’s
“At __ End”
30 Décor choice
31 MLB’S D-backs
35 Editorial
“let it stand”
37 Event often visible in the evening sky
38 “__ tu”: Verdi
aria
39 Cutting teeth
40 Derisive interjection
41 “Rope-a-dope”
boxer
42 Paleo diet protein source
45 Took care of, as a spill
46 Annoy persistently
47 __-cone: summer treat
49 Safety feature at a trapeze school
50 La Brea discovery
51 Wall-climbing plant
53 Slow on the uptake
57 Pakistan neighbor
58 “Duck Dynasty”
attire, for short
59 Pants, briefly
60 Flow back,
as a tide
61 By way of
64 Ave. and st.