DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Prepared, as a bed 5 Scuttlebutt
10 Col. Sanders’s chain
13 Soft palate feature that translates to “little grape” 15 Battery terminal 16 Right-angle shape 17 Where Alcatraz sits 20 Towel embroidery word
21 Like many meds 22 “A __ Day’s Night”: Beatles song 23 Disc sport popular on college campuses 28 Shakespearean fairy queen
29 Jay of late-night TV 30 Lady’s man 33 “A Room of One’s Own” author 35 Admirer 38 Give-it-a-test-run advice
42 Kiki, Sandra or Ruby 43 Brainiacs, maybe 44 Mass __: an I-90 nickname
45 Fair 46 “Dude!” 48 Storied pot-of-gold spot
56 Achy
57 What a slob makes
58 Nitrogen-based dye 59 Hiding-your-eyes parent-baby game 64 Veer off course 65 Vegan and Paleo regimens 66 Roadside hot dog seller
67 NBC staple for 45 years
68 Daisy variety 69 Three in a deck
DOWN
1 __ pork: Chinese menu item
2 To no __: in vain 3 Kirsten of SpiderMan films 4 Toymaker for
Santa
5 Charged
6 Mom’s brother 7 “Surely you don’t
mean me?!”
8 Has too much, briefly
9 __ center 10 Skewered dish 11 Bell-bottom bottom
12 Only non-rhyming Pac-Man ghost 14 Roastery draw 18 Many a Mideast native
19 Very, very
24 Website for film buffs
25 Polar bear hangouts 26 Bank (on) 27 Inside scoop 30 Inc., in England 31 Underground find 32 Pastrami holder 33 Value 34 Chicago airport code
35 “The X-Files” org. 36 Arctic seabird 37 TV’s “Science Guy” 39 Plenty, in texts 40 Gala
41 “Once __ ... ” 45 Kangaroo kid 46 Diamond bag 47 Daredevil dangers 48 TV sports awards 49 Hall of Fame pitcher Ryan 50 Southern twang 51 E, on a gauge 52 Peanut Butter Cup creator 53 Storybook elephant 54 Layer with a hole 55 “Toy Story” cowboy 60 “Yes, indeed!” 61 Give a thumbsdown
62 “__ whiz!”
63 Law firm fig.