Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Crown sparkler 6 Like the Mandarin and Thai languages 11 Surgery ctrs. 14 Spanish birthplace
of St. Teresa 15 Food flavoring 16 Conjunction that’s the “B” in the FANBOYS mnemonic 17 *Clue suspect
dressed in red 19 Commotion 20 4x4, briefly 21 Boston newspaper 22 Foreboding sign 23 Package
25 *The key to good
locks?
27 Poems of praise 29 Muscle twitch 30 Regarding
33 Civil rights icon
Parks
36 Tropical fruit
40 *“I confess! You
got me!”
43 Tennis star Naomi 44 Silicon Valley’s
__ Alto
45 Pond plant
46 “__ be the judge
of that” 48 Temptation 50 *Parakeet’s home 55 Elbows
59 Some nest eggs,
for short
60 Puts underground 62 Baseball official 63 __ Quixote 64 Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? 66 Ted Lasso
setting: Abbr. 67 Out of style 68 Painter’s stand 69 Night anticipating the Ball Drop, informally 70 Where most of “Moby-Dick” takes place 71 Romance novelist
Danielle
DOWN
1 Become clogged, as a printer 2 “Buenos Aires”
musical 3 Knowing better
now
4 Golfer Ernie known as “The Big Easy”
5 __ out: reacted
angrily
6 Russian autocrat 7 “Queen of All
Media” Winfrey 8 __ wafers 9 Nailed an exam 10 Net judge’s call 11 President who appointed two women to the Supreme Court 12 Less civil 13 Curling piece 18 Dip stick? 22 Happened 24 Popular group in
school
26 Latvia’s capital 28 Sudsy bar 30 Earlier 31 Dubious, slangily 32 Argentine aunt 34 Nine-digit ID
issuer 35 LGBTQ+
advocacy org. 37 Dating app info 38 “Peace” shape 39 Go on to say 41 Barber’s powder 42 Stinging insect 47 Rodent in a
maze
49 Raves (about) 50 President who declared Juneteenth a federal holiday 51 “The Twilight
Zone” specialty 52 “Home on the __” 53 Speculate 54 Wipe clean 56 False front 57 Quiz-show host 58 Say
“C-H-E-E-S-E”? 61 Self-assembly
furniture giant 64 Chemical in some plastics, briefly
65 “Dig in!”