THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mike and __: fruitflavored candy
4 Spanish small
plates
9 Bungling
14 Supervillain
Luthor
15 On one’s toes
16 Fourth prime
number
17 Fish-throwing Muppet __ Zealand
18 Wall Street
fluctuation
20 Sambuca
flavor
22 Spanish
grandmother
23 Unpaved side of
the road
27 Patella place
28 Common first section of a menu, familiarly
29 Food Network
host Garten
32 Jeans accent
34 Architect’s
creation
37 Take a different route, and a hint to the circled letters
41 Grumble over
42 Swamp reptile, for
short
43 “lol oops”
44 Exceedingly
45 Mountain
climber’s goal
49 Boundary of a
black hole 53 See where one’s
coming from
55 Like a couch
potato
56 Overly cute “So
cute!” 60Business VIP
61 Country singer Gill or writer/producer Gilligan
62 Deceitfulness
63 Meat in a Dr.
Seuss title
64 Shutter strips
65 Les __-Unis
66 Player coming off the bench, for short
DOWN
1 “Let me find out”
2 Passionate about 3 Post-divorce party 4 Brings under control
5 Styled after
6 “As __ our agreement”
7 Noah’s boat
8 Fantastic deals
9 Debate topic
10 More contemporary
11 Like a supervillain 12 Former MLB catcher Tony in the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame
13 “Star Trek” series, for short
19 Not yet scheduled: Abbr.
21 Fondue fuel 24 Safe space
25 Persuasive
column
26 High-strung
29 Sundial three
30 Private aid gp.
31 “I Hope You Dance” singer Lee __ Womack
33 Tennis player
Swiatek
34 Half a droid name 35 Prefix with system 36 Use a colander
37 “Ghosts” network 38 Yonder lass
39 Minnesota senator
Klobuchar
40 Poison ivy reaction 44 High-strung
46 Prague residents 47 “The Island of Doctor __”: H.G. Wells novel
48 Bury
49 Put in power
50 Bouquet holders 51 Pilot’s update,
briefly
52 Reacts to yeast 53 Bubble and churn 54 One of four active
volcanoes in Italy 56 Den sets
57 Not trendy
58 Fjord kin
59 Simple
sammie