East Bay Times

Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 Tries out 6 Nosegay

10 Pod whose cross sections are pentagonal 14 Skip a syllable

or two

15 Until

16 “Stay” singer Lisa 17 __ Cup: PGA

Tour prize 18 Pollinator who

can’t fly? 20 Middle of dinner? 21 Perfect

23 “Island of the Blue Dolphins” novelist Scott 24 Parents in the Hundred Acre Wood?

27 Joie de vivre 28 Emo

32 Storage furniture 34 Prize money 37 Sphere in old

referee whistles 38 A pop

39 Camera setting, and what shortened 18-, 24-, 47-, and 58-Across? 40 Otter kin 41 Durango day 42 Apt rhyme for

“freeze” 43 Well-mannered

blokes

44 Goofs in proofs 46 Tromp

47 Product of Shenandoah Valley shepherds? 53 Bird in a bevy 56 Hot spots 57 Signal 58 Experiment­al soft

cheese? 60 Glossy material 62 55-Down, properly 63 Like most whiskey 64 Heart Eyes or OK

Hand

65 Fancy spread 66 Fool (with) 67 Wrap sheet

DOWN

1 Schedule for later 2 Two-time WNBA MVP __ Delle Donne 3 Many a sedan 4 Amit Majmudar’s

“__ to a Drone” 5 People’s

superlativ­e 6 Sound of the

Northwest

7 O icon

8 Took second, say 9 Second person 10 One whose tricklearn­ing years are behind them 11 “The Mamba Mentality: How I Play” writer Bryant

12 Rod and __ 13 Cain’s brother 19 Nary a soul 22 “Spring forward”

letters

25 Quick meeting? 26 Tough talk? 29 Damage control

pro 30 High-stakes

shelter

31 Shaggy beasts 32 Relinquish 33 31-Down

abundance 34 Pump letters 35 Lays aisle-mate 36 Bass output

39 “__ the Turtle”: University of Maryland catchphras­e 40 “I would like some more catnip, please” 42 Bootlegger’s

vessel 43 Visual aids 45 Really take off 46 Blame (on) 48 Canyon

49 Campus climbers 50 Focus of Maslow’s

hierarchy 51 Message board? 52 Red Square

honoree 53 Sample collector,

maybe

54 __ Major 55 62-Across,

improperly 59 “Bang!”

61 Org. for OBs

 ?? By Blake Slonecker ?? 2/23/24
By Blake Slonecker 2/23/24

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