The Daily Crossword
ACROSS
1 Unexpected obstacle 5 “Pronto!” letters 9 Suffers after a Pure Barre class, say
14 __ Top ice cream 15 Four Corners state 16 “If only!”
17 “Will do!”
18 Emperor after
Claudius
19 __ touch
20 Forgettable band with a memorable song
23 Jazz pianist Mccoy 24 Unnecessary
28 Pie crust fat
31 Ace a presentation 32 “Pipe down!”
37 Lingerie selection 38 Musical ability
39 Old PC platform
41 Snaky fish
42 Shopping cart
fillers
45 Spot for spare
change
48 Cook’s Illustrated
offering
50 Lake bird with a
wild laugh
51 Sotheby’s auctions,
e.g.
54 Fragrance
58 Element of irony, and what can be found in each set of circled letters?
61 Like 18-Across
64 Goalie’s success 65 Per-hour amount 66 Not sleeping
67 Diva’s big moment 68 Simpson daughter voiced by Yeardley Smith
69 Came to a close 70 Shout
71 Opening for a hotel
key card
DOWN
1 “Ask me anything!” 2 Mary Poppins, for
one
3 Out of this world?
4 Went to a tutoring
session, say
5 Many a godmother 6 Fret (over)
7 Judge who hit 62
home runs in 2022 8 Galaxy, for one
9 Set one’s sights on 10 “All the Birds in the Sky” Nebula winner __ Jane Anders
11 Monopolize
12 Prefix with dermis 13 Triple __: orangeflavored liqueur
21 Baghdad’s country 22 Room that may have a sectional sofa
25 Respected leader 26 Cucumber salad,
coconut rice, etc.
27 Panache
29 Bacardi
liquor
30 Blu-ray buy
32 Knightley of “Bend It Like Beckham”
33 “Peter, Peter,
pumpkin __ ... “34 Build
35 Old name of Tokyo 36 Work hard
40 __-cone
43 Error
44 Brought about, as
a movement
46 Like a red-carpet
event
47 Opens, as a fern
frond
49 Former quarterback Manning
52 Writing contest
entry, maybe
53 Long look
55 “Reply all” medium 56 “Untrue!”
57 October 31 option 59 Malicious
60 Hand out
cards
61 “Insecure” star Issa 62 Woolf’s “A Room of
One’s __”
63 Fit to be tied 2/1/23