The Daily Crossword

ACROSS

1 Mixes in

5 Pricing word

9 Tidied, as a lawn 14 “An Officer and a

Gentleman” star 15 Run the show

16 Many a flower girl 17 Lotion component 18 Wyoming national

park

20 Charmin maker,

familiarly

22 Put forward

23 Needle hole

24 Nocturnal birds of

prey

26 Chicken tikka __ 30 “Everything must

go” event

32 De-pleat?

34 Hor. map line

35 Guitar lesson

basics

37 Military title for

POTUS

38 JFK alternative

39 “Tabula rasa”

philosopher John 40 Video chat

annoyance

41 Live coal

43 Hobbit enemy

44 __ polish

46 “The View” Emmy

winner Shepherd 47 Purpose

48 Gurgling sound

49 POST-WWII alliance 50 “Wiggle” singer

Jason

52 Sushi prep verb

54 Brewpub barrel

57 Meditate on 59 Gibbons of talk TV 61 “No need to mince

words”

65 __ pricing

66 Think alike

67 “West Side Story”

pair

68 Old character

69 The Brownings,

e.g.

70 Garden

annoyance

71 Newspaper

commentary

DOWN

1 Obviously

impressed

2 Supply chain

inconvenience

3 Sport with teams of

quadcopters

4 Tourney rank

5 Rowing machine,

informally

6 Hearing-related

7 Period of the Peloponnesian Wars

8 Layers on a farm

9 Foyer

10 Eating patterns

11 Word before “Shorty,” “Smart,” “Hard,” and “Out,” in film titles

12 Environmental

prefix

13 Bear’s lair

19 Evil spirit

21 Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards 25 Director

Craven

27 Emotionally crushed, and an apt description of the circled elements in this puzzle?

28 Beer choice

29 Centipede

maker

31 Ararat lander

33 Semi

35 Billowy mass

36 Belmont Stakes

racer

40 Shang-chi player

Simu

42 Converged 45 Without help

46 Punkie Johnson’s

NBC show

51 Part of a Cinderella

story

53 Give a speech

55 Online

periodical

56 __ community

58 Common result in championship chess

60 Currency

symbolized by € 61 Track circuit

62 Self-image

63 Italian three

64 Psychedelic letters