DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tree covering

5 Put up, as

wallpaper 9 Tabloid couple 13 Margarine 14 Emotionally

distant

16 Weigh station rig 17 Four Corners state 18 Ancient Greek

region

19 Settled on a perch 20 *Customer support line, typically 23 Barbecue chef’s

spice concoction 24 “Barton Fink”

director Joel 25 *Male minister 31 Step before a “big

kid bed” 33 December decor 34 Compete 35 “Morning Edition”

medium 37 Raggedy __ and

Andy dolls 38 Venue for a major

1-Down

40 __ de Triomphe 41 Mottled horses 44 Airline that doesn’t

fly on Shabbat 45 *Rolled meaty entree that may be served “wet” 48 “You’ve Got Mail”

director Ephron

Short albums, for short

50 “Too complicated to explain,” and a way to describe the end of the answer to each starred clue? 57 Big birds of

Australia

58 Greek fable writer 59 Mental flash 60 Apple Watch

assistant

61 Email option since

1997

62 Harvest

63 Brief “Chat soon” 64 “__ Yankees” 65 Sugar amts.

DOWN

1 Boxing match 2 Voice range higher than tenor 3 Tangible 4 Vegetable also called a German turnip

5 Blue accessory for Maggie Simpson 6 __ vera gel 7 Sold-out amount 8 Enter

9 “The House of the Spirits” novelist Allende

10 Latin American soap

11 Gulf States ruler 12 Research univ. near

Harvard

15 Tap

21 Enjoyable 22 Chocolaty coffee

drink

25 Era associated with modern furniture 26 Senegal currency 27 First extra inning 28 Home of the Vietnam National Museum of History 29 “Proud Mary”

singer Turner 30 Mend

31 Grump

32 Deeply un-well? 36 Covent Garden

performance 39 Keep out of college

sports for a season 42 “... Kind of?” 43 Consider overnight 46 Paleontologist’s

discovery

47 Fitting

50 “You found the

right person” 51 Leader 52 Workplacefocused workplace: Abbr. 53 Weaving machine 54 __ of March 55 Spring’s opposite, in tides 56 Intervening spaces 57 Approximate fig.