The Daily Crossword
ACROSS
1 Kid’s parent
5 Rebecca in the Basketball Hall of Fame
9 Texter’s “I don’t
understand”
13 Actor Omar
14 Hyaluronic __
15 Frost
16 Zevk, literally
19 Early ISP
20 Fictional sleuth
Wolfe
21 Egyptian cobra
22 St. __: Cornwall
town
24 Bise, literally
28 Sought out for
advice
30 Part of a vague
ultimatum
31 Pianist Rubinstein 32 Philistine
35 Make a bad
impression?
36 Cangkir, literally
39 Reserve
42 Noshes
43 Vigilant
47 Marquee time
49 Plays loudly
50 Quando, literally
54 Sails off course
55 “You __ do this!” 56 Some ballpark figs. 57 Dust jacket
paragraph
58 La lluvia, literally 63 Humdinger
64 Element used in a
5-Down
By Katie Hale 65 Dressed
66 Ancient Briton 67 Some digital natives, informally
68 Moral lapses
DOWN
1 Move past, as a
breakup
2 Luxurious
3 Car loan fig.
4 Judgy sound
5 Lithography tool
6 Prehistoric paint
colour
7 Compete for, in a
way
8 First word of the European Union anthem’s title
9 Taken suddenly 10 Group celebration after a gamewinning play, say 11 Slangy agreement 12 B.A. Baracus
player
17 Recon collection 18 Cowardly Lion
portrayer
19 Big name in
speakers
23 Longing for
change, maybe 25 “Downton Abbey” countess played by Elizabeth Mcgovern
26 Tax form digits
27 All ready
29 Capote nickname 32 Fluffy wrap
33 Again and again, in
verse
34 Fresh-squeezed drinks, for short
37 Hammer end
38 Actor Kilmer
39 FYI kin
40 __ and aah
41 Like yeast
44 Horse breed that originated on an Asian peninsula
45 Goes back to the
start
46 Exxon, in Canada
and Europe 48 Jukebox musical whose first number is “Nutbush City Limits”
49 “Porgy and __”
51 “Judy” star
Zellweger
52 Hunter slain by
Artemis
53 2004 World Series
MVP Ramirez
58 Indulgent attention,
for short
59 Shade
60 Gerund syllable
61 IBMS, e.g.
62 Former boxer
Laila