Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Fit
5 Van Halen icon 10 Shortening in some cookie recipes
14 “Keep talking ... ” 16 Fade
17 House blends,
e.g.
18 “Likely story” 19 Trap during
January, maybe 20 “Euphoria” actor
Eric
21 Nej : Swedish ::
__ : Russian 22 Doesn’t work hard 24 Sabermetrics
input
26 Hosp. scan 27 “The Boys of My Youth” writer Jo __ Beard
28 Jolly good
30 Lock
32 United in a cause 35 Word with string
or sing
36 Focus of a diary in some sleep therapy sessions 39 Campus group 40 Yellowish pink 41 “And all that” 43 Forrest player 44 Bitey dog 47 Unlikely to pipe up 48 Buckwheat noodle 51 Chemical synthesized in the liver
53 Sail a zigzag
course 55 Résumé
concerns
57 Put a handle on 58 Gardner of
mystery
59 Chow from a
halal cart, e.g. 61 Caught up to, in
a way
62 Yoga class respite 63 Covers up a plot? 64 Five Pillars faith 65 Taylor-Joy of “The
Queen’s Gambit”
DOWN
1 Aegean peninsula 2 Boston street where Cheers is located 3 Retailer with Outdoor Discovery programs 4 Golden Globe winner Tracee __ Ross
5 Fell
6 During 7 Reproductive
gland
8 __ rock
9 Starts over 10 Either “Twelfth
Night” sibling 11 Vacay for
parents-to-be 12 Disdainful
13 __ zoo
15 Experts who prefer openminded people? 23 “No need to
convince me” 25 Flashes of
insight
29 Ribs 31 “Chocolat”
actress
32 Aleve target
33 Cy Young stat 34 Muscle worked by a reverse fly, for short
36 Rake
37 Repurposed creatively, as trash
38 Wildly 39 Elements of Petrarchan sonnets
42 Mind field, for
short
44 “That can’t
possibly be true” 45 Weirded out 46 Herbal brew
49 Mikvehs, e.g. 50 National Scrabble
Day month
52 City across from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge 54 Shoe brand with a Kate Spade New York collection 56 Actress Ward 60 Genre that
includes techno