DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Scholarly titles,
briefly
4 Certain
cephalopods 10 Spaghetti strap top 14 “Please tell me that
didn’t happen!” 16 Rights activist
Clooney 17 Banishing acts 18 Choice 19 Strategically placed whoopee cushion, say 20 Waters down 22 Canine greeting 23 About half the weight of an average car 26 Request for a
distraction 28 Flower plot 29 Vulgar
32 Hightail it
33 King nicknamed
“Longshanks” 35 Pro fighter 36 Cyborg detective
of TV and film 40 Formal denial 41 Email attentiongetters
42 Shim, for example 44 Slant
45 Saw from behind? 48 Most charged 50 “Take a chill pill” 52 Include
53 Popular tech
service
56 Goddess credited in a Milky Way origin account 57 Stat in standings 59 Smallest Central
American country 62 Job under the hood
63 Ones who see what you mean 64 “Come Sail Away” rock band 65 Applies, as flattery 66 Nanjiani’s “The Lovebirds” co-star
DOWN
1 Going platinum, maybe
2 “Hunger” memoirist __ Gay 3 Ate dinner 4 Massage therapist’s supply
5 Vinyl successors 6 Buffoon
7 Cry from one who knows the answer 8 Near-the-deadline response, at times 9 “Whatevs”
10 Farm country avian cry
11 “You don’t doubt me, do you?” 12 Husky cousin 13 Doorbell response 15 Song one can’t
perform?
21 Dept. in a “Law &
Order” spin-off 24 Shoppe name
word
25 It can be faked
with air freshener 27 “My heavens!” 30 Power measure 31 Refuse 33 “Paradise Lost” et
al.
34 __ coffee
36 Puts on the hard
drive
37 Left in disgust or
fear, slangily
38 Is ready to act 39 Oscar winner
Paquin
43 Brain scan inits. 45 Garden tool 46 Northern sky sight 47 Minimalist 49 Shire of “Rocky” 51 Herring type 54 Road game 55 Metallica
drummer Ulrich 58 Census checkbox 60 Cancer follower 61 Soccer mom’s
usual ride