CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bad cut 5 And 9 __ Ababa 14 Natural skin soother 15 Good earth 16 Datum in a forensic database 17 Impediment 19 Neighborhood gathering 20 Outcasts 21 Boiling point? 22 “No seats” sign 23 Score after deuce 25 Beach application 28 Billion-dollar pharmaceuticals 34 More than suspect 36 Early 20th-century touring cars 37 Part of a joke 38 Lingering effect 39 Not as dotty 41 Colorado tributary 42 Massey of old films 44 Thoroughbred’s dad 45 “Git!” 46 One with a lot to learn, perhaps 49 Obstruction 50 Pushed the doorbell 51 Night school subj. 53 Scandinavian bar exchange 57 Corrode 61 Local anesthesia effect 62 Device with pulleys 64 Words in some English resort town names 65 Major fit 66 First name in homespun humor 67 Word aptly represented by four black squares in this puzzle 68 Watched carefully 69 Exchange jabs

DOWN

1 [You can’t mean that!] 2 Wasatch Mountains resort 3 __ grapes 4 Some Chrysler engines 5 Around-the-clock 6 Half a Daily Planet byline 7 __ Antonio 8 Texting interjection 9 Tacks on 10 “Phooey!” 11 __-cheap 12 Like some JFK flights 13 Lid issue 18 Verbal jab 21 Cassis apéritif 23 Penitent 24 Mirage site 25 Knitter’s coil 26 Family reunion attendee 27 At all 29 A pass may cover one 30 Brief rules? 31 City in New York’s Mohawk Valley 32 Stalin-era prison 33 Dramatic outpouring 35 Policy __ 40 Readied, as leftovers 43 Puncture consequence 47 Court figures, for short 48 Ensenada pronoun 52 Velcro alternative 53 Nose-in-the-air sort 54 __ Ration 55 Guesstimate phrase 56 With, on le menu 57 Do landscaping work 58 Dr. Johnny Fever’s fictional station 59 Soprano Gluck 60 Sommelier’s concern 62 “__ you out of your mind?” 63 “All opposed” reply