TODAY’S CROSSWORD

Across

1. ___ Christian Andersen 5. Medicated lozenge

11. Stop on a crawl

14. Chill

15. “Hip Hip, ___!”

16. “___ calls?”

17. Admirer of anything French

19. On, as a lamp

20. Andrea Bocelli, for one 21. “___ quam videri” (North Carolina’s motto)

22. Bit of dust

23. Hush-hush

25. Muhammad’s religion 27. Light or popular music (2 wds)

32. Put one’s foot down? 33. Magical wish granter 34. ___-friendly

38. Codeine source

41. Exclusive

42. Vestibule

44. Girasol, e.g.

46. Performance given only once at any one place (hyph., 2 wds)

51. Close-knit group

52. “Stop right there!” 55. Face-to-face exam 57. “Hamlet” has five

60. Boredom

61. Family head

62. HNO2 (2 wds)

64. “___ not!”

65. Consecrate

66. Battering wind

67. Arch

68. Marked with sinuous lines, botany

69. Aims Down

1. Sword handles 2. Acquiesce 3. Shade 4. Married woman, Spanish 5. Even if, briefly

6. Catch, in a way

7. ___ and aahs 8. Emotionally stressful event

9. Most robust

10. Artist’s asset

11. Trigger, e.g.

12. Condo, e.g.

13. Information unit

18. Colgate rival

22. Bison features

24. Apprentice

26. Chair part

28. Chop (off)

29. Dostoyevsky novel, with “The”

30. Bubkes

31. “Fancy that!”

34. Alien?

35. “My boy” 36. Someone visually attractive (2 wds)

37. Kidney-related

39. Bull markets

40. Buddy

43. Free from, with “of” 45. Narrow country roads 47. Granular

48. Bully

49. Period of legal minority 50. Classic yo-yo maker 53. Association of persons of the same trade

54. Keeps out of sight 55. “What are the ___?” 56. Aggravate

58. Beethoven’s “Archduke ___”

59. Princes, e.g.

62. Bother

63. Adaptable truck, for short