DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Skin growth 5 Learns via word

of mouth

10 Riot spray 14 Camera or eye

part

15 Bates __: “Psycho”

setting

16 Muslim holy man 17 How a boat may

rock

19 Busting agent 20 Ziti or rigatoni 21 How boxers

square off 23 Generous slice 26 Macho

27 How Fred and Ginger sometimes danced

32 “The guy over

there”

33 Stadium attendance counter

34 Sports show

rundown

38 Not fer 40 Assumed

name

42 Lotus position

discipline 43 Pulsate

45 Furnish with a

fund

47 Fond du __,

Wisconsin

48 How BFFs

converse 51 Division in a

church

54 Black gemstone 55 How people may

agreeably see 58 Use elbow

grease on

62 Take __ the waist:

alter

63 1984 De Palma film, and a hint to five puzzle answers

66 “__ Talkin’”: Bee

Gees #1 hit 67 Birch relative 68 Cosecant’s

reciprocal

69 Cake decorator 70 Video chat choice 71 Abbr. at the end

of a list

DOWN

1 Thin trail of

smoke

2 Mozart’s “Il mio

tesoro,” e.g. 3 Frees (of)

4 Scary African fly

5 Managed care gp. 6 Camera named for a Greek goddess

7 Going __: bickering 8 Second effort 9 Place to hide a

metaphorical ace 10 Beethoven’s Ninth

is written in one 11 Stradivari’s tutor 12 Christmas song 13 Roast host 18 Conversations 22 Bleacher feature 24 “__ boy!”

25 Water heater

27 Chew the fat 28 Tipsy from wine,

say

29 Kuwaiti ruler 30 “Cry Macho” (2021) star Eastwood

31 Set out for, as a destination

35 Pepsi, for one

36 Food thickener

37 Agreement

39 One of Nolan Ryan’s seven

41 “Any day now”

44 Kiss from Consuela

46 “And your reason?”

49 One-celled pond dwellers 50 “The dog ate my homework” is a sad one 51 Conductor

Ozawa

52 Pessimist

53 Throw with

effort

56 Egg yellow

57 Drain swirl 59 Passing words? 60 Arm bone 61 Fishing rod

attachment 64 “You betcha”

65 Dr. of hip-hop