Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Lean
5 Comedian profiled in “Last Man Standing” 9 Member-owned
shop
13 “Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself” org. 14 Abbr. on an
ESPN ticker 15 Home country of Olympian Pita Taufatofua 16 Low-alcohol
brews 18 Something to
gain?
19 Random comments online?
21 TV planet on which people age backward 22 “Make sense?” 23 Sydney’s st. 26 Was more than
superficial
28 Red choice 31 “Sorry, can’t
make it”
35 “We’ll Meet Again”
singer Lynn 36 Feed
37 Before, previously 38 Burton of “Reading Rainbow” 39 Profess
40 Finally learns
about
42 Kind of filler 44 Maroon 5’s “__
Will Be Loved” 45 Service call? 46 Blue choice 49 Many times o’er 51 Unnamed
informant 57 Treats, as a
winter road 58 Catering
production? 59 Healing plants 60 “Make sense?” 61 Some leafcutters 62 Catherine who is one of the six in Broadway’s “Six” 63 Fed. IDs 64 Blue-bottled
vodka
DOWN
1 Lean
2 Brand with Blue Lemonade and Blue Vanilla flavors
3 “You __ me!” 4 Lead-in for jet or
prop
5 Prepare to scare,
with “on”
6 Big name in gaming monitors
7 “Jude the
Obscure” author 8 Role for
Sudeikis
9 Saves
10 Bona fide 11 Scary figure 12 Picks up a bill, or
hands a bill 15 Tantalize 17 Frame
20 Some British
parents 23 Battery
acronym
24 Show one’s face,
maybe 25 Medium also known as aquarelle
27 Jane Lynch
series
29 Give a skilled
delivery 30 Allegorical cards 32 Ben or Jerry,
notably 33 25-Down, e.g. 34 Wit’s end?
38 Try to protect, in
a way
40 T. Rex rock style 41 “Is that so?”
43 Vast chasm 47 Rises into view 48 Warthog pair 50 Low winds 51 Urgent letters 52 Character voiced by Moira Kelly and Beyoncé 53 Read quickly 54 Putrid
55 Lincoln or
Jackson
56 Crafts site