CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 “So close!”
7 Promotion on a podcast, say
11 Rx from Dr. Mom
14 One may devour “Chocolat”
15 Flight-related prefix
16 Snicker syllable
17 When to sample wedding desserts
19 Night before a holiday
20 Pronoun for Rihanna
21 Sitter’s handfuls
22 Bert’s foil on “Sesame Street”
24 Know by intuition
26 Exams scored from 1-5
28 ___ gobi (Indian dish)
30 When to present a case
32 Like a trampoline
35 They’re capped above two feet
36 Snip
37 Tracking device
39 Fir fluid
42 Suspicious
43 Lead-in to “intellectual”
45 When to test an app
49 Exchange of cross words
50 Common autobiography subtitle
51 Arrange, shawl as a
54 Like proofed dough
55 Mask or cloak
56 Softball stat
59 “___ get over it” 60 Taxing periods,
and a hint to 17-, 30- and 45-Across 64 “Boyz n the Hood”
actress Long 65 Tablet some
take to bed 66 Gloria Estefan’s Cuban birthplace 67 What an electric
car doesn’t use 68 They may be stroked or inflated
69 In, now
DOWN
1 Story trajectories
2 Rachel’s biblical sister
3 Gets to first base
4 Reverent poem
5 Take effect
6 Streetcars
7 Rewards for “good boys”
8 Floral garland
9 Decorative vase
10 Very enterprising people
11 Cryptography org.
12 Actor Joseph Gordon-___
13 Nacho topping
18 Design detail, for short
23 Some lipstick shades
25 For-ev-er
26 Julia Roberts, to Emma Roberts
27 Before surgery, informally
28 Jackson 5 hit with an alphabetical title
29 “Skip to My ___”
31 Gives the green light
33 Grade school semiformal accessory
34 Nintendo dinosaur
38 Blacken
39 Powerful DC figure? 40 Computing pioneer Lovelace
41 Drum for a tod- dler, maybe
42 Renown
44 Clairvoyance, e.g., briefly
45 Revealing, as one’s soul
46 Clarke who played Mother of Dragons
47 Certain electric cars
48 Perfect garden
52 This way: --->
53 Place to exchange rings
55 TikTok content, casually
57 Stretch, as the truth
58 “My word!”
61 D&D, e.g.
62 NBA legend Ming
63 “___ been drinkin’ ...” (Beyonce lyric)