DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Private stash

6 Pizza serving

11 Dell products, for short

14 Approximately

15 Weighed down

16 Flamenco cheer

17 *Many an aria

19 Tiny

20 “Will I __ learn?”

21 Dark cloud, maybe

22 Noggin

23 1950s sitcom name

24 *Not quite apologetic

27 Historic Nevada city with a railway museum

29 __ suey

30 Salon offering

33 Ore-Ida nuggets

38 Here, in France

39 Name better left unsaid, or a description of the answers to the starred clues

41 Syrup source

42 Unlikely winners

44 “Best before” kin

46 Tune for two

47 Campus URL ender

48 *Persuaded with flattery

53 Frosted, as a cupcake

57 Periods of history

58 Horse rider’s strap

59 “Big Night” actor Shalhoub

60 Buddy

61 *In the near future

64 __-at-ease

65 Strainer

66 Plentiful

67 Stubborn beast

68 Greatgrandparent, say

69 Big buttes

DOWN

1 Scoped out with bad intentions

2 “Heavens __!”

3 Successfully handles a rough patch

4 Rushed

5 Greek letter between zeta and theta

6 Sports replay type, briefly

7 Pointer or printer lead-in

8 “__ have a clue”

9 Cartoon frame

10 Music producer Brian

11 Confident stance

12 Blue-skies forecast word

13 Far from swanky

18 Like a busybody

22 YA novel by Carl Hiaasen about a threatened owl habitat

25 Unreturnable serves

26 Hide from view

28 Red-ink amounts

30 Zip

31 __-friendly

32 Unexpected moments of good fortune

33 “__ Te Ching”: philosophical text

34 Unwelcome picnic guest

35 NFL six-pointers

36 Bar bill

37 James Bond, for one

40 “__ Be in Love”: Kate Bush song

43 “No __, no glory”

45 “I’m good with it”

47 Poet St. Vincent Millay

48 Old photo tone

49 Face-to-face exams

50 __ Forces Day

51 “Pet” annoyance

52 Pillow feathers

54 Henhouses

55 “__ Holmes”: Netflix film starring MillieBobby Brown

56 Units of force that make up newtons

61 NNW opposite

62 Olive __

63 Orange tuber