The Daily Crossword
ACROSS
1 Striped pet
6 “__ chic!”
10 Gear tooth
13 Sprightly
14 Bridge predecessor
15 Back on a ship
16 *Research without direct application
18 Spending power, for short
19 “No Ordinary Love” singer
20 Eleven digits?
21 Treadmill setting
23 *Czechoslovakian movement of 1968
27 Yuletide song
28 33-Across years
29 Paper or plastic
30 Father of the Muses
33 Score half
34 *Helpline offering
38 “I see,” at sea
39 Noodle nugget
40 “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s __”: Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema
41 Policy of some restaurants
44 “An Caighdeán Oifigiúil” language
45 *Commerce imbalance
49 Recycle bin, e.g.
50 Shades
51 Becomes compost
55 “Gross!”
56 *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue?
59 Baseball great Ripken
60 Comes up against
61 Isaac of “Moon Knight”
62 U-turn from WSW
63 Response heard during a pool game
64 Pier
DOWN
1 Spigots
2 Río flower
3 __ of paradise
4 Cover up, in a way
5 [Nod]
6 Org. with 27 member states
7 Salon procedure
8 Key to going back?
9 Grassy expanse
10 Word on an Italian menu that means “hunter”
11 Those at fault
12 Classic Pontiac muscle car
14 Annex
17 Anthracite or lignite
22 __ de Triomphe
24 Nevada city about 100 miles from Burning Man
25 The Aztecs of the NCAA’S Mountain West Conf.
26 Bloke
27 Center of a 3-4 football defense
29 Spanish dialect in the Big Apple
30 Character debuted by Zadie Smith?
31 Poetic preposition
32 Can. neighbor
34 “You __ be serious”
35 Leave out
36 Home of many Quechua speakers
37 Means to an end?
42 Final words of an engagement
43 Top removed before dashing off?
44 Conditional programming word
46 Mover’s rental
47 Cost
48 Identifies (as)
52 Largest member of the dolphin family
53 Leader in the Bulgarian Empire
54 Feudal laborer
55 Diamonds, in slang
57 “Last Week Tonight” network
58 “Bam!” kin