Today's crossword

ACROSS

1 Symbol on the

Texas state flag 5 Central point 9 Sailboat poles 14 Muted, as colors 15 Cuatro y cuatro 16 To no __: without

success

17 North Carolina

university 18 Clothing part that

might split

19 As of late

20 Talks things out to

resolve tension 23 Miss Piggy’s

favorite pronoun 24 Spice amt.

25 Post for an MBA,

maybe 28 Slumbers soundly 33 Ecol. or geol. 34 Catch a glimpse

of

35 Digital camera

insert, briefly 36 “Good Lord!” 39 Food drive

donation 41 Familiar “Who’s

there?” reply 42 Arrived by air 44 Push-up bra

feature

46 __ Diego Padres 47 Applies more

pressure 51 Paramount

channel 52 Paramount

channel

53 Web pioneer 54 Jack London short story set in harsh winter conditions, and what the ends of 20-, 28-, and 47-Across can be used for

60 Green energy

category

63 Tend the soup 64 Big celebrity 65 Learn to fit in 66 “__, Brute?” 67 Sizable bodies of

water

68 Formally hands

over

69 Amy of “The

Wire”

70 Rabbit kin

DOWN

1 On __: how much freelance work is done 2 Like many

supermodels 3 Sunburn soother 4 Change the title of 5 Deals in dirt 6 Rapper who plays Fin on “Law & Order: SVU” 7 Toppled Iranian

leader

8 Black Lives Matter

co-founder Ayo __ 9 Nail treatment at a

salon, informally 10 State definitively 11 Toothed tool

12 Up to, briefly 13 Underhanded 21 Fish eggs 22 Inquires 25 Top-grade 26 Word processing

menu heading 27 “Happiness is having a scratch for every itch” poet Nash 28 Disheveled clod 29 Crossbred big cats 30 Brief time, briefly 31 Cleared a hurdle

32 Take steps 33 Component of

cider but not cola? 37 Hold the deed to 38 Twists, as data 40 “Nope”

43 Pink Floyd’s

“Comfortably __” 45 All-out sprint 48 Many a laptop

owner

49 Condo

management gp.

50 Mischievous 54 Cassette 55 Teeny

56 “Close My Eyes Forever” singer Ford

57 Brain wave 58 Stadium sound 59 “Who __

knows?” 60 Cul-de-__ 61 Rhyming tribute 62 Young fellow