THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Rain’s counterpart 6 Bottomless pit
11 Scoundrels
15 Quartet voice
16 Quality
17 Fly-fishing need 18 “Two stars! My spaghetti always sticks to the sides!”
20 North __ Sea:
Kazakh lake
21 Son of Hera
22 Actress Ortiz
23 Part of SCOTUS 25 Magnate
27 “Half a star! The ceramic is flaking off the cast iron!” 29 Established
30 The Falcons, on
scoreboards
32 Munro pen name 33 Poem of homage 34 Poolside piece
36 Kit letters
37 “One star! Chocolate gets clumpy, and sauces always separate!”
41 Not cool
42 Planet Fitness
payment
43 Conclusion
44 Socal school
47 Tanqueray, for one 48 Behave
51 “Zero stars! It spits hot oil everywhere!”
54 Words mouthed
while holding an imaginary phone to one’s ear
56 Like a colorful
garden
57 “Now I see!”
59 One-named “Locked Up” singer 60Spelling of
“BH90210”
61 Kitchen array, or an apt title for this puzzle?
64 School near
Windsor
65 Useless
66 Bowen of “Modern
Family”
67 Office fixture
68 Razz
69 Some dance
elements
DOWN
1 Day when everyone’s a little Irish, familiarly
2 Town crier’s cry
3 Walking stick, e.g. 4 False
5 Memorable span 6 Buckets
7 Wide
8 Source of Tibetan butter
9 Afternoon rest
10 Occurred to
11 Mild cigar
12 French farewell 13 Genre portmanteau
14 Greek moon goddess 19 Soda opener 24 Chi preceder
26 “The Gathering
Place” island
28 Date line?
31 Tiny, made tinier 34 Barracks bed
35 Transition
36 Kaitlin’s “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” role 37 Disparaging term
for some frat guys 38 “Holy wow!”
39 Not exactly
promising words 40 Actress Headey 41 Flat, in a way
43 Improved,
hopefully 44 Norcal airport
45 “You need to let
this go”
46 2021 winner of “Rupaul’s Drag Race”
48 Acid neutralizer 49 Informal invitation
at the door
50 Stiffens
52 Toy piano sound 53 Carpentry
files
55 Drink like a kitten 58 “Stop the __”:
protest sign
62 Oolong or rooibos 63 Club VIPS