CROSSWORD II

ACROSS

1 Exploding Head or Cowboy Hat Face

6 Torah cabinet ...

or boat 9 Pride Month

letters 14 Assessed 15 Workplace initialism whose middle letter 18 Allow

19 Pong company 20 Actress Ruby or

Sandra

21 Very minor

celebrity 24 “Cleanup on aisle

five” tool

25 “If all ___ fails ...” 27 Follows the

leader?

28 “Have I got ___

for you!”

29 D&D, e.g.

31 Miso protein 33 First lady who’s made history by working a nonWhite House job 38 Letter after

upsilon 40 Searched high

and low

41 Genre hidden in

“played music” stands for 44 Charged particle “equity” 45 LAX X-ray

16 Half of this clue’s operators

number 46 ___ de Janeiro 17 Atmospheric 47 Mopey music

molecule genre 48 “How Deep Is Your Love” R&B group, 1998 52 WWW access

option

53 Job applicants’

submissions 55 One born yesterday, say?

57 Plane ticket

prices

58 Money, in slang 59 Biotech focus achieved by the starts of 21-, 33-, 48- and 59-Across?

64 You are ___

(mall map words) 65 Dallas resident 66 Free throw paths 67 What’s more? 68 Crock-Pot

concoctions 69 Staircase

segment

DOWN

1 Wash away over

time

2 “___ tov!” 3 Plains people who believe in Wakanda 4 Nickname that

drops -nifer 5 Named, briefly 6 Improvised line 7 Actress

Witherspoon 8 Cat, to a child 9 Shakespearean

king

10 “Scat!” 11 Athlete’s secondbest effort 12 Toss 13 Aesthetician’s

swabs

22 Sudoku solver’s

skill

23 Along for the Vibe nail polish brand

26 Mess up 28 Science guy Bill 30 Sleepover duds 32 Uneven? 33 Velociraptors,

e.g.

34 Sacred flower in

Hinduism 35 Full of foliage 36 Organ with over

80 billion neurons 37 Jokey reply to someone geeking out

38 Wharf’s relative 39 Out of the woods 42 26.2 miles, for a

marathon 43 Whack-a-___ 48 Contacted privately on Insta 49 Puts back at zero 50 Yellow fruits 51 Circular part of a

roller coaster 54 Encourages 56 “Enough!” in

Ecuador

59 UPS alternative 60 Pet doc 61 Program file

extension 62 Statute

63 Recipe amt.