The Daily Crossword

ACROSS

1 Prickly desert plants

6 Oolong and rooibos

10 “The Problem With __”: documentary about Indian stereotypes on “The Simpsons”

13 In order to

14 Puts on edge

16 Springs

for dinner

17 “Almost!”

18 Distant

19 “Gorillas in the Mist” animal

21 Answering to

22 Bargain hunter’s event

26 Dairy farm animal

27 Majestic homes

32 As good as it gets

36 News inits.

37 __ Beds National Monument

38 Rush hour woe

42 Actress Falco

43 “I’m __ ears!”

44 Iona College athletes

45 Major plot twist in “The Wizard of Oz”?

47 Happy __ clam

49 Lingers

55 Permit

59 Syst. with hand gestures

60 Away from shore

61 Items found on library shelves, and what are literally found in each set of circled letters

64 Ludicrous

66 Response to someone saying

65-Down, perhaps

67 Hairstyle that may be maintained by a professional “loctician”

68 Had a bite

69 Relay race segments

70 “R u for real?”

DOWN

1 Resort island in the Ionian Sea

2 First-stringers

3 __ City: Baltimore’s nickname

4 Skin art, for short

5 “We’re on!”

6 Melodies

7 Roxy Music co-founder Brian

8 “__-Man and the Wasp”

9 Title with a “II,” maybe

10 Passionate

11 Transportation Secretary Buttigieg

12 Icon tapper

13 Polaris or Betelgeuse

15 Part of RBI

20 Chapel bench

23 Rights advocacy org.

24 Datebook entry: Abbr.

25 Wild animal’s home

28 Communications code word for “A”

29 Casual eatery

30 Really, really bad

31 Biological pouches

32 “Rhyme Pays” rapper

33 Knucklehead

34 Dubai dignitary

35 “Right on!”

36 http follower

39 “And here it is!”

40 Musk of Spacex

41 Seaweed gelatin

46 “Can’t be helped”

47 Pack animal

48 Light lunches

50 “Oh my gosh!” reactions

51 Fertile desert spots

52 Garden-variety

53 Square

54 Both parents, in some families

55 “Mamma Mia!” pop group

56 Boor

57 Only

58 Approved, briefly

62 Word before a maiden name

63 Really grooved on

65 “It’s c-c-cold”