DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Aesop critter who loses to the tortoise
5 Metal corrosion
9 Braid
14 Sermon-ending word
15 Norway’s capital
16 Underground molten rock
17 Like cotton candy
18 *Chophouse selection
20 Fat-based bird feed
22 __-Mex cuisine
23 “Picnic” playwright William
24 *Wayfair and Amazon
27 Glowing remnant in a fireplace
29 Weep loudly
30 Brian of Roxy Music
31 Get __ of: discard
32 Beast of burden
33 Fragrant shrub
35 Tapered off
38 Envelope-slicing tools, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have?
42 Jab
43 Rough wool fabric
45 Coll. dorm figures
48 Cabernet, e.g.
49 __-Wan Kenobi
51 “Good Girls” actress Whitman
52 Texas city on the Rio Grande
54 *Army fare during WWII
56 Blueprint detail, for short
57 Sci-fi saucer
59 Method: Abbr.
60 *Moving day rental, for some
63 “Game of Thrones”
actress Headey
66 Commuting option
in Ga.’s capital
67 “What __ is new?”
68 Pub pints
69 County of southeast England
70 Prep for publication
71 Folk story
DOWN
1 “That ship __ sailed”
2 Roadie’s armload
3 Like travel mugs
4 Lassitude
5 Bad to the core
6 Laptop port letters
7 Post office openings
8 Muscle quality
9 U.K. leaders
10 “E pluribus unum” language
11 Discussion outline
12 Pictures
13 “Any __?”: “Who’s interested?”
19 Fire up
21 Voting members in a certain college
24 Subj. often taught
by a native speaker
25 Drudgery
26 Laughed heartily
28 Sense of self
31 Bird of prey
34 Org. with a racket in its logo
36 Feathery accessory
37 Dawn droplets
39 Barely make, as a living
40 From a distance
41 “Beautiful Girls” singer Kingston
44 __ Plaines, Illinois
45 Job application component
46 Socially dominant figures
47 Asparagus units
50 Easter egg holder
53 Sharp, as some angles
54 Was able to
55 Ramadan faith
58 Unoccupied
61 Hardly strict
62 CBS forensic series set in Vegas
64 Butterfly catcher
65 Powdery residue in a fireplace