The Daily Crossword

ACROSS

1 Conspiring circle

6 Singer/actress

Thorne

11 Briefs brand

14 Kitchen magnet? 15 Snacker’s stack

16 Tool that only

works in water

17 Tough

19 Iberian cheer

20 Second printing

21 Kerfuffle

23 Key above ~

24 Osso __

27 Party of the first

part in the Bible? 28 Hot

31 “Becoming Madame __”: Anchee Min novel set in China

32 “Well, well, well!” 33 Homer’s wellmeaning neighbor 34 Sore

39 Sweets

40 Street sign abbr. 41 Massive lexicon:

Abbr.

42 Weak

47 Simple

semiconductor

48 Space heater?

49 Three-time World Series of Poker champion Ungar 52 Hyperformal

“Blame me”

54 Haberdashery clips 57 “New Rules” singer

__ Lipa

58 Product used on four of this puzzle’s clues

61 Goof

62 Big name in the

cosmetics aisle

63 Data visualization

discovery, perhaps 64 “So?”

65 “Copy that”

66 Ish

DOWN

1 Inner circle

2 First sign of

spring?

3 __ acid

4 Hawkeye State

college town

5 Miss

6 Withstood hardship 7 Stretch often named for a music genre

8 Wreath of plumeria

blossoms

9 Tolkien trilogy,

briefly

10 Take on

11 Audible precursor 12 Pot-building poker

wager

13 Decent, so to

speak

18 __ top

22 Easy-to-store bed 25 Like the winner in a number-guessing contest

26 Island that hosts the Vans Triple

Crown of Surfing

28 Sigma follower 29 Ad __

30 Male swan

31 Leader of a

slapstick trio

34 Saying

little

35 Unblinking sci-fi

villain

36 First name in

couture

37 Java

38 Swimmer that hunts using electrolocation 39 “I wouldn’t

do that”

43 Ore. neighbor 44 Tone down

45 “__ is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated”: Shaw 46 Great Lake near the Pro Football Hall of Fame

49 Screen __

50 Reznor of Nine

Inch Nails

51 Vitamin

intake std.

53 __ facto

55 CPR pros

56 NYC division

59 Mel who hit

511 career home runs

60 Capital of

Thailand?