DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Tree covering
5 Put up, as wallpaper
9 Tabloid couple
13 Margarine
14 Emotionally distant
16 Weigh station rig
17 Four Corners state
18 Ancient Greek region
19 Settled on a perch
20 *Customer support line, typically
23 Barbecue chef’s spice concoction
24 “Barton Fink” director Joel
25 *Male minister
31 Step before a “big kid bed”
33 December decor
34 Compete
35 “Morning Edition” medium
37 Raggedy __ and Andy dolls
38 Venue for a major 1-Down
40 __ de Triomphe
41 Mottled horses
44 Airline that doesn’t fly on Shabbat
45 *Rolled meaty entree that may be served “wet”
48 “You’ve Got Mail” director Ephron
49 Short albums, for short
50 “Too complicated to explain,” and a way to describe the end of the answer to each starred clue?
57 Big birds of Australia
58 Greek fable writer
59 Mental flash
60 Apple Watch assistant
61 Email option since 1997
62 Harvest
63 Brief “Chat soon”
64 “__ Yankees”
65 Sugar amts.
DOWN
1 Boxing match
2 Voice range higher than tenor
3 Tangible
4 Vegetable also called a German turnip
5 Blue accessory for Maggie Simpson
6 __ vera gel
7 Sold-out amount
8 Enter
9 “The House of the Spirits” novelist Allende
10 Latin American soap
11 Gulf States ruler
12 Research univ. near Harvard
15 Tap
21 Enjoyable
22 Chocolaty coffee drink
25 Era associated with modern furniture
26 Senegal currency
27 First extra inning
28 Home of the Vietnam National Museum of History
29 “Proud Mary” singer Turner
30 Mend
31 Grump
32 Deeply un-well?
36 Covent Garden performance
39 Keep out of college sports for a season
42 “... Kind of?”
43 Consider overnight
46 Paleontologist’s discovery
47 Fitting
50 “You found the right person”
51 Leader
52 Workplacefocused workplace: Abbr.
53 Weaving machine
54 __ of March
55 Spring’s opposite, in tides
56 Intervening spaces
57 Approximate fig.