THE DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Arabic for “tower” 5 Hermana de la

madre

8 “Skip me”

13 State with Blue

Jackets

14 Like bald tires

16 Pastry in a pink box, in Los Angeles

17 Condiment often served with egg rolls

19 “Drop it!”

20 Extremely steep 21 Circle or square 23 Kings, on NBA

scoreboards

24 Queen Latifah’s

genre

26 National

Pickleball mo.

27 Tined utensil

28 Loops in discreetly 31 News letters

33 Works for

35 NPR host Glass 36 Budget beef cuts 39 Cute nickname for

a fuzzy pet

41 Reach new

heights?

42 Vegetables that rank high on the Scoville scale

44 “Yo,” in Rio

45 Get a feeling

46 Go “vroom vroom” 47 Hideous

48 Blow off steam 49 Animal house? 51 Triage ctrs.

53 Rough calculation,

briefly

54 Burdensome

56 Website with customizable RSVP options 60Performance platform

62 Cafeteria combat epitomized by the actions in 17-, 36-, and 42-Across? 64 Ski equipment

65 Inner Hebrides isle 66 Fly high

67 Church nooks

68 Proterozoic or

Hadean

69 “Voyage to India”

singer India.__

DOWN

1 Figures, casually

2 “Nope”

3 Sushi roll ingredient

4 Wild cards?

5 JFK hotel named for a defunct airline

6 Chits

7 Ancient

8 Waste time

9 “The Raven” poet 10 Celery topped with peanut butter and raisins

11 Day of the Dead symbol

12 Market share?

15 Semimonthly tide 18 Mexican Mrs.

22 Save for later, in a

way

25 “Gimme a break” 27 Available

28 “Back to the

Future” bully

29 Port of call

30 Wheels away?

32 Juicer discard

34 Dune buggies, e.g.:

Abbr.

36 Lids offerings

37 Artist whose name is a homophone of a sculpture medium

38 Fix, as a dog

40 Dog-eared, say 43 Get a rise

out of

47 Document from

an Amer. embassy 48 Milanese moped 50 Bumblers

52 WNBA official

54 Collectible toy

truck brand

55 Toy with an Eiffel

Tower trick

57 Rangers goalie

Shesterkin

58 Pad see ew cuisine

59 Raison d’__

61 “Golly!”

63 Room for movie

night