Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Former Yankee
slugger, familiarly 5 Barrel of laughs 9 “Joy of Cooking”
writer Rombauer 13 Take away 15 Skeleton prefix 16 Is sorry about 17 *Chilled
caffeinated drink 19 __-lock brakes 20 Pt. of HDTV
21 __ facto 22 “Moby-Dick” ship 24 Slim woodwind 26 Not well
27 “Star Wars” pilot
Dameron 28 *Cold War barrier 32 Blueprints 33 Orderly 34 Comply with 38 Frying liquids 39 Holy book 40 Small valley 41 Ward on “FBI” 42 Brazilian berry 43 Medicinal units 44 *Close-knit,
influential group 47 Legal org. 50 Lummox 51 Peters out 52 Tearjerker featuring Anna Chlumsky in her feature-film debut 54 Ceramics oven 56 “__ the
season ... ” 59 Radar screen
spot
60 *English name of a West African republic 63 Refrain syllables 64 Majorino of
“Veronica Mars” 65 Cosmetician
Lauder 66 Meadow moms 67 Affirmative votes 68 Pass (through)
slowly
DOWN
1 In the thick of 2 Risotto grain 3 Part of the Three Musketeers’ credo
4 Lemon
5 NFL officials
6 The 411
7 “__ of Girls’ Things”: poem by Sharon Olds 8 Metal tab that
protects a shoe 9 Baghdad’s
country 10 Accumulate, as
charges
11 “Same here!” 12 “All
kidding __ ... ” 14 Descendants 18 Oil cartel
acronym 23 “Riverdale” actor
Goree
25 Tiny potted tree 26 Slanted, as a
typeface
28 1970s tennis star
Nastase 29 Worldwide
humanitarian gp. 30 Concretereinforcing rod 31 “Sorry, can’t help
ya”
32 Spots to buy
stamps: Abbr. 35 Mid-American Conference university in Indiana
36 Actress Fanning 37 “Of course!” 39 Triteness 43 Royal son 45 Fin. neighbor 46 In a lazy way 47 Saunter 48 Internal regulation for a club
49 Nimble 53 Hoppy brews,
briefly
54 Beer company
based in Hawaii 55 Some nest eggs,
for short 57 Words of comprehension, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues 58 Dance move 61 “C’est la __!” 62 CIA predecessor