DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Some twitches
5 Cicada predators
10 Challenges for nannies
14 Compatriot
15 Bracelet spot
16 “Smashing!”
17 Official portraitist for a Mongolian leader?
19 “Water for Elephants” novelist Gruen
20 Sinus infection woes
21 Sheer
22 Suddenly become alert
23 Tone down
25 Condiment for an Ottoman leader?
31 __ curls
34 Tends to a draft
35 Paris street
36 R&B singer Redding
37 Hitches
38 Cartoon girl who often says “Swiper, no swiping” to a masked fox
39 Web
40 Afternoon hr.
41 Creator of a cocky hare
42 Paltry stipend for a Middle Eastern leader?
45 Scoreboard count
46 Effect
50 Thrones
53 Alcoves
55 Stretched to the max
56 Humble abode for an Arab leader?
58 Hobby farm measure
59 Horror or mystery
60 Haitian friend
61 Comparison word
62 Jacket wool
63 Coat with gold leaf
DOWN
1 Points of view
2 Omar of Congress
3 Civil War nurse Barton
4 Automatic transmission parts?
5 Pop art icon played by Bowie in “Basquiat”
6 Chip in a new pot
7 Goes downhill fast
8 “__ fix thx!”
9 Complete group
10 Keeping up (with)
11 Impossible Burger’s lack
12 Peel
13 Lead
18 Cause trouble
21 Exploits
23 “The Imitation Game” encryption machine
24 Some 2BR listings
26 Creeds
27 Go with the flow
28 Aces
29 Italian bread?
30 Use a scythe on
31 Hip hop’s __ Thugs-n-Harmony
32 Thing
33 Big name in credit cards
37 Huffy state
38 High-pile carpet style
40 Numbered piece
41 High spots
43 Raising a stink?
44 Barely cut
47 “Ditto,” more formally
48 Poet Day-Lewis who wrote the Nigel Strangeways detective novels as Nicholas Blake
49 Expressed disapproval
50 RBI or ERA
51 A pop
52 Vibe picked up by a psychic, supposedly
53 Russo who plays Frigga in Marvel’s “Thor” films
54 Dún Laoghaire’s land
56 Rank above cpl.
57 Fell