The Daily Crossword
ACROSS
1 Hint of color
6 Biblical tower site
11 Inquire
14 Play area?
15 Greek salad fruit
16 Sushi topper
17 Pride symbol
19 Texter’s “Hang on a sec”
20 “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” director Lee
21 No-frills font
22 Wee bit
23 Arachnid relative that resembles a crustacean
27 Sex therapy subject
29 Helpful supporter 30 Loads
31 Give in a little
33 Irritate
36 Functions perfectly, and what can be said about the starts of 17-, 23-, 46-, and 57-Across
40 Brief alarm?
41 Fake
42 Singer India.__
43 Gargantuan
44 “The Country Girls” novelist Edna
46 Minty frozen treat at Mcdonald’s every March
51 School year division
52 Swarms (with)
53 Noble __
56 With 11-Down, Michigan college town
57 Nutty-tasting winter vegetable
60 TNT part
61 Sounds from happy cats
62 Loosen, as a knot
63 Storm center
64 Borden spokescow
65 Utopias
DOWN
1 Actress Reid
2 Setting of the graphic novel “Persepolis”
3 People next door
4 “Erin Burnett Outfront” channel
5 Knight’s tunic
6 “Ziggy Stardust” singer David
7 Some Italian sports cars, for short
8 Star of HBO’S “Barry”
9 Actress Longoria
10 Part of a race
11 See 56-Across
12 Kinda
13 Shish __
18 Approximately
22 Slippery, as a road
24 Barnyard sound
25 Actress Kurylenko
26 Utility abbr.
27 Newton trio
28 “Am __ early?”
31 Dividing lines
32 Luau strings, briefly
33 Diversify, in a way
34 Ohio border lake
35 Marvel mutants who battle Magneto
37 Egg (on)
38 Macy’s red star, for one
39 Literary “Listen!”
43 “I wonder ... “
44 Units of resistance
45 Language from northern Spain
46 Utter
47 “Atlanta” actor Brian Tyree __
48 Golfer Palmer, to fans
49 Beach volleyball Olympic gold medalist __ Walsh Jennings
50 Pick up
54 Spelling clarification phrase
55 Wally Lamb’s “__ Come Undone”
57 Imitate
58 __-de-sac
59 German conjunction