Today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Fancy alternative to a classic necktie

6 Time sheet abbr. 9 Meat salad from

Laos

13 Shop

14 Informal assent 15 Third-longest

African river 16 “Push It” hip-hop

trio

18 Verdi work

19 “Am __ picky?” 20 Mattel game based on Crazy Eights

21 Spoke

monotonously 22 Omen

23 Mardi Gras 7UDYHOHU·V stopover 26 Hypotheticals 27 Crumb-carrying

critter

28 App annoyances 29 Microbe

31 Freeze over 33 Chef and cookbook writer whose four elements of cooking are the first words of the answers to 16-, 23-, 48-, and 56-Across 37 Extinct birds 38 Russian denial 40 Foldable bed 43 2016 Summer

Olympics city 44 Meditation sounds 46 Period of history 48 Inclination to use

biting sarcasm 51 Quick cut

52 Say again

53 GPS suggestion 54 Support staff member $UWLVW·V VWDQG 56 “Feels like” figure that combines temperature and humidity

58 Foul moods

59 “I __ your

pardon?” 60 “Basic Instinct”

actress Sharon 61 IRS IDs

62 Poem of praise 63 Puts a stop to

By Glenn Cook

DOWN

1 Birthplace of

St. Francis 2 Announcing 3 Choices at

perfume counters 4 WWE champion Randy who had a long rivalry with John Cena

5 Low card in a

royal flush 6 African scavengers whose cries sound like laughter 7 Transplant in the

greenhouse 8 Relaxation station 9 Slimming surgeries, informally 10 Meeting outline 11 Go over again, as

a contract 12 Blended sitcom family of classic TV

15 “All sales are final” 17 Bit of smoke 21 Sand formations 24 Snack in a shell 26 Mount Olympus

dwellers, e.g.

30 “Awesome!” $OOVWDWH·V industry: Abbr. 32 Foot the bill 34 “American __”: rock musical based on a Green Day album 35 Twelve sharp 36 Many a Disney Channel star 3RVHLGRQ·V VWDII 40 Gentle touch

41 Quite a lot 42 Deflects through

a basketball rim 44 Electrical

interruption 45 Run into 47 Pinnacles

49 Info, slangily 50 Avarice

51 Father Christmas 56 “Barry” cable

network

57 “Or so” suffix