DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 *Mean message 9 Administer an oath to
16 2018 SAG Life Achievement Award honoree 17 Above it all, in a
way
18 Featured dishes 19 Grassy expanse 20 Impassive 22 Skewed view 23 Walk leisurely 27 *Occasion for
hiring a babysitter 29 Beers served with
lime
32 Grubhub link 33 Persia, today 34 “Hidden Figures”
org.
36 Jazz great who was the first AfricanAmerican man to win a Grammy 41 *”So Much to Say”
Grammy winners 45 Nocturnal sound 46 50+ group 47 Microsoft search
engine
48 Spring
51 Pungent cleanser 53 *Fits together
neatly
58 Put into words 59 Disney’s “__ and
the Detectives” 60 Hailed 63 Philadelphia school whose teams are the Explorers 65 Lucrative venture 70 Harness racer 71 Minor issue? 72 Stops
73 Mushy message, and the end of a sequence that progresses through the answers to the starred clues
DOWN
1 Consumes 2 Swiss mountain 3 __ kwon do 4 Env. insert
5 __ name 6 Banned fruit spray 7 Without much thought 8 Performed light surgery on?
9 Fla. recreation spot 10 Norton in “The Shawshank Redemption,” for one 11 Portuguese feminine pronoun 12 Excuse
13 Outfit again 14 Whitlock Jr. of “The Wire” and “Veep”
15 Arms treaty subj. 21 Big name in pianos 23 Corrosive
compounds 24 Colonel called “the second most dangerous man in London” by Sherlock Holmes 25 “Way to go!” 26 Introvert 28 Worn-down
pencils
30 Santa __ winds 31 Posed (for) 35 Swingline insert 37 Cloister leader 38 Canonized one 39 Concave navel 40 Painter Degas 42 Cheesy sandwich 43 Pitching stat 44 Typing stat 49 Young bird of prey 50 Broadcasters 52 Confuse 53 Atlanta-based
airline 54 Astrologer Sydney 55 Cap brim
56 Thrill to pieces 57 “The Goldbergs”
actor George 61 Like deli orders 62 Hgt.
64 Capt.’s underlings 66 Max. opposite 67 “I think,” in texts 68 Minor quibble 69 Bastille Day time