DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hit the slopes 4 Divide according to delivery area, as mail 8 Pleasant vocal cadence 12 Charged particle 13 Nairobi resident 15 Sheltered from the wind 16 *Glowing circular phenomenon in the constellation Lyra 18 Cranberry sites 19 *Harlequin publication, e.g. 21 “The Time Machine” author 24 Big sports venue 25 Dollar bill 26 Strong old-time cleanser

30 TSA agents’ requests 31 Toothpaste holder 33 Entomologists’ subjects 35 *Sound of tires on a highway, say 39 Manner of behavior 41 Tolkien brutes 45 Friend 46 Golden __: General Mills crackers 50 It can be bruised 51 “Laughing” critter

53 Find suitable 55 *Budget college meal 59 Greek god of war 60 *Letter stereotypically created from cut-and-paste newsprint 64 Mailed 65 Harmonize 66 Feel crummy 67 Consumes 68 Jumps on one leg 69 Hosp. staffers, or an initial feature of the answers to starred clues

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1 Knighted one

2 Zen garden fish 3 The Boar’s Head in “Henry IV,” e.g. 4 Fitting 5 Hoping to score a run 6 Olympic miler Jim 7 Barber’s powder 8 Hard work 9 “Couldn’t be happier!” 10 Arthurian tales 11 Some electric cars 13 Small hill 14 Scottish denial 17 College sr.’s test 20 Parts of necks 21 Sizzling

22 Wildebeest 23 Spider’s creation 27 Three-time PGA leading money winner Vijay __ 28 Tokyo’s Yoko 29 “__ see it ... ” 32 Disco or jazz 34 Title for Amazon’s Jeff Bezos 36 Wurlitzer product 37 Broadcast 38 Target of a cheek swab

39 San Francisco vicinity

40 H or O, in H2O 42 NFL official 43 Technique used for many film explosions: Abbr. 44 Boozer 45 Sentence segment 47 Makes sense 48 Cantaloupes and honeydews 49 Terse summons about an exam grade 52 They’re built in birdhouses 54 AOL rival 56 New Deal prog. 57 Sworn promise 58 Leery of 61 Rowboat mover 62 Metal in bronze 63 Raised urban trains