CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Concert blasters 5 Birth control options, briefly 9 ___ squad (beauty team) 13 Had a go 15 Muscat resident 16 Undercover agent’s cell? 17 Ham ___ (pork knuckles) 18 Vermont resort town 19 Pigtailed “Hey Arnold!” character 21 Kit ___ 22 Prefix with “skeleton” 24 Clorox competitor 26 Unfurnished mansion? 32 “Therefore ___” (BillieEilish song) 33 Glide like a bird 34 Drinks slowly 35 Got on in years 37 Concert goods, informally 39 Small earring 40 Biological sequence 42 Awards for John Legend, briefly 44 First nightly news segments? 45 Why pillboxes and newsboy caps are still in fashion? 48 Oscar winner Rami 49 ___ Lankan 50 Before, to Elizabeth Barrett Browning 52 Courtroom event 55 Remove everything from 59 Past, present or future 61 The assumption that two women dating are lesbians, e.g., or a hint to what was deleted from 16-, 26- and 45-Across 63 Started a poker pot 64 Add Fido to the family, perhaps 65 Way off course 66 Group of buddies 67 Roll down the runway
DOWN
1 They require PINs 2 Like an irrelevant point 3 Shirt in many school uniforms 4 Kebab stick 5 “Kinda” 6 “That’s a bad sign!” 7 Totally over 8 ___ Artois 9 Food that’s definitely not organic: Abbr. 10 Blah 11 Crooner Paul 12 Light spray 14 Peaks 15 Gymnastics great Katelyn 20 P.E. footwear 23 What shows how far you’ve come? 25 “My bad!” 26 Food with a poppy variety 27 Bill of Rights components 28 TikTok dancer Addison 29 Goofed 30 “Pop!” or “pow!” 31 Concludes 32 He betrayed Othello 36 Qatar’s most populous city 38 Pixar technique, briefly 41 ___ milk (soda fountain treat) 43 Ultimatum 46 Vail luggage item 47 Targets, as with a snowball 50 And others: Abbr. 51 University of Nevada city 53 Opera turned into a 1998 musical 54 Rock’s Kings of ___ 56 Moth life stage 57 Dino with comically tiny arms 58 Mythical Himalayan 60 Six games, say, in tennis 62 D&D, e.g.