The Daily Crossword

ACROSS

1 Otherwise

occupied

5 “Checkmate!”

9 Concert gear

13 “__ upon a midnight dreary ... “

14 Origami bird

15 Henhouse

16 “¡__ mío!”

17 Rabbit kin

18 Color of unbleached linen

19 Dinner and drinks

with a preacher? 22 Actor Jeong

23 “Quite so”

24 Move, roots and all 26 Thousands of years, for a megalith?

31 __ Diego

34 CNN anchor

Burnett

35 Brain teaser aid

36 Bouillon cube

maker

38 “Queen __”: pop

music nickname 40 Big fetes

41 Quechua speaker 42 Nonpayment risk,

for short

44 Squalid digs

45 Exam for a certificate in mediation?

50 “Same!”

51 Titter

55 Golf ball position 57 Brief moment, or what three long answers in this puzzle have?

60 Gumbo pod

62 Miso soup base 63 Possess

64 Ray

65 Like some rural

roads at night 66 Rid of wrinkles 67 “__ there, tiger” 68 Poems of praise 69 Ice cream brand with a birthday cake flavor

DOWN

1 __ Tree: place of enlightenment in Buddhist tradition

2 Collective

bargaining group

3 Give a good

talking-to

4 “Okay, I get it”

5 Country where

Farsi is spoken

6 New Orleans voting

district

7 Like challenging

pushups

8 Lipton rival

9 Royal flush card

10 Nojito and nada

colada, for two

11 Sweat outlet

12 Like some silk or

sugar

14 Garment similar to

a hijab

20 Parking post 21 Short music

releases

25 Job safety org.

27 Bit of cacao

28 Month before

febrero

29 Little pest

30 Site with handmade crafts

31 Omit

32 Actress Hathaway 33 Sign at some

museums

37 Sack __

39 Thus far

40 “Check it out”

43 Watch

the birdie? 46 UFO beings

47 Tegan and Sara, for

one

48 “Independence Day” director Emmerich

49 Computer pro

52 Stockpile

53 Diplomat

54 Perfect places

55 Ear part

56 Store whose packages typically contain Allen keys

58 Archipelago part

59 __ end up

61 Sedaris of “The

Mandalorian”