DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Taper or fade 5 Many 9 Charcuterie board

selection 13 Invocation

syllables 14 Tropical evergreen 16 Chanel scent 17 Something heard around Chicago, literally?

19 Like AOL software, originally 20 EDM instrument

21 Bug

23 Digital

thermometer? 24 Acorn producer 26 Hurdle before spring break, literally?

28 Baby __

32 Inflexible

33 One of 28

Monopoly cards 34 Dermatologist’s

concern 37 Overalls material 39 Brooding sort 40 Passport or Pilot,

e.g., literally? 42 Scooby-__ 43 Locked account? 45 Snowballs or

paintballs 46 “Yeah, try again”

47 Regional plant life 49 Cup holder site 51 Frog that carries fertilized eggs on its back, literally? 54 NYC member of “The Squad” in Congress 55 Frozen over 56 48-Down song with the line

“But when I call, you never seem to be home” 58 Shake __ 62 Snatches 64 Reason to buy a sports car, for some, literally? 66 Grasp

67 Sign into law 68 Gas lighting? 69 Hot 70 Transcript stats

71 Lip

DOWN

1 Crow’s cacophony 2 Heed

3 Setting of the graphic novel “Persepolis”

4 Bit of info

5 The “A” of LGBTQIA+, for short 6 Scott who turns

into Ant-Man 7 Valence electrons,

often

8 Have a trying

experience? 9 Green prefix 10 “I’m not even here”

11 Squeezeboxes 12 Internet hookup 15 Mammal that uses

kelp as a blanket 18 Crust

22 Rust

25 Fuzzy fruit

27 Grow old

28 Adult __

29 “Suit yourself!” 30 Shark cage?

31 Ingenuity org. 35 Coquito liquor 36 Rating for “Euphoria,” briefly

38 No longer

relevant

40 Cab alternative 41 First name in the Harlem Renaissance 44 Piglet pal

46 Tide pool sights 48 56-Across singer 50 Zen garden

growth

51 Boneless appetizer 52 Hurl

53 Yosemite peak free-climbed by Emily Harrington, familiarly 57 Black-and-white

predator

59 Well offshore 60 Corp. bean

counters

61 “Steak House”

dressing brand 63 Chicago WNBA

team

65 “__ my pleasure!”