Today's crossword

ACROSS

1 College-level HS

English course 6 __ and drop 10 Party loot

14 Place for a bench

warmer?

15 Bag 16 Melodramatic sigh 17 Building a fire without any charcoal or lighter fluid?

20 Brain wave

readout, for short 21 Not bumpy 22 Hindu spiritual

writing 23 Mountain of

comfy shoes? 27 Only cardinal direction not in a state name

28 Big lug

29 Dirty word? 32 Mesopotamian region where cuneiform was invented 35 Missay, say 36 Prefix with

dynamic 37 Artichokes eaten first thing in the morning? 41 Potato spots 42 Dawn goddess 43 Specks 44 Gesture-based communication syst.

45 Ancient 46 Designer Gucci 48 “Should this potted plant go in the dining room window or the bedroom window?,” e.g. 54 Many, casually 56 “High Drama”

singer Lambert 57 Premier __: French wine designation 58 Relinquishing

one’s noble title? 62 Oxford, but not

Cambridge 63 Quod __

demonstrandum 64 Hilarious

65 Basic math

homework

By Alexander Liebeskind

66 Autos 67 Full of fluff

DOWN

1 Pack animals 2 “Lion” Oscar

nominee Dev 3 “Super Mario”

brother

4 Fortune rival 5 Share 6 Antarctica, for

one

7 Unlike a 6-Down 8 Quilting, e.g. 9 Serengeti grazer 10 Broke out of a

slump?

11 Poultry choice 12 Omnia vincit __ 13 Actress Rowlands 18 Part of YSL 19 Starting on 24 Equals

25 Like some

subjects

26 “The Practice” actress __ Flynn Boyle

30 __ Minor

31 Colon units

32 __ butter 33 One-eighties 34 Violent vortex 35 Triage ctrs. 36 In the offing 38 Give a shout-out? 39 Word with surf or

shop 40 Restaurant offering that may have an age limit 45 Skin care brand 46 Open-book

exams?

47 Prolific TV

producer Norman 49 Caribbean spots 50 2022 FIFA World

Cup host 51 Strand during a

ski trip, say

52 “... never mind,

then”

53 Like brown butter 54 Minus 55 Diamond Head

locale

59 __ center 60 Stretch of history 61 Sports doc’s scan