DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Abate

4 Brit. detective’s rank 8 Gastropod associated with traditional mail 13 It may result in an RBI 14 Staircase post 16 Lead-in for jet or Tax

17 Horse sense? 20 Tiny fraction of a min.

21 Gas pump choice 22 Witness 23 Cattle call?

26 Act part 28 Piper’s son of rhyme 29 Afflicted 30 Force oneself (on) 35 Gds.

39 Cat’s paw? 42 Lob

43 Least strict 44 Bread grain 45 Actress Thurman 47 “¿Cómo está __?” 49 Fox hole? 56 Lincoln, familiarly 57 Inventor Tesla 58 Austen’s aspiring matchmaker 61 Hog wash? 64 Online financial services pioneer 65 “Nature’s soft nurse,” to Shakespeare 66 “You’re __ me” 67 Wasp’s assault 68 Collections 69 MASH staff

DOWN

1 Paradise 2 Backyard parties, briefly 3 Flowers named for their color 4 Place to stay 5 “Then live, Macduff; what __ fear of thee?”: Macbeth 6 Suffix with boat or cox

7 Small bird with a small-sounding name 8 Sailor’s guardian 9 Cloistered female 10 Riposte to “Am not!”

11 “A Doll’s House” dramatist 12 Doesn’t prevail 15 Highlands miss 18 Wikipedia’s globe, say

19 News service since 1851

24 Blood carrier 25 Campbell jingle letters 26 Go (through) carefully 27 Egyptian queen, familiarly

31 Skin pigment 32 Spherical legume 33 Tic-tac-toe loser 34 Jeanne d’Arc, e.g.: Abbr. 36 Lascivious mental state 37 Ophthalmologist’s concern 38 Looked at carefully 40 Has arisen 41 Needle case 46 One of the 3M Company’s M’s, originally 48 Editorial reconsideration word 49 Absorbs nicotine smokelessly 50 Letter-shaped fastener 51 “Vive __!” 52 Manages to attain, with “out” 53 Briquettes 54 Edward who wrote “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 55 Parking lot employee 59 Secure in a harbor 60 Hill-building insects

62 Soup holder 63 Increases