QUICK CROSSWORD

Across

1 24 minutes, in the NBA 5 Giant among wholesale clubs 9 Heat unit 14 Rideshare app 15 __-deucey 16 Great Lakes mnemonic 17 Author Wiesel 18 Improbable tale 19 Candy heart message 20 Position of football lineman J.J.

Watt 23 Sound heard by a shepherd 24 Intense, as a competitor 28 Average, in math 33 Unsteady on one’s feet 34 Country rocker Steve 35 “__ & the Women”: 2000 Gere

film 36 Divisions of tennis matches 37 Actress Holmes 38 Ticked off 39 “How was __ know?” 40 Diamond weight 41 Word before Master or case 42 Fountain treat with Bosco,

maybe 45 Biblical dancer 46 For each 47 Echoic remark before “What do we have here?” whose words can follow the ends of 20-, 28- and 42-Across 54 Many Mideast residents 57 Verdi opera set in Egypt 58 Color similar to turquoise 59 ’90s candidate Ross 60 Hosp. scans 61 Road grooves 62 Japanese capital 63 Literary sister of Amy, Meg

and Jo 64 Magnitude

Down

1 Tinged 2 Having the skills 3 Actor/singer Garrett 4 They’re on the house 5 Prepares to have one’s tongue

depressed 6 Healthy berry 7 Griffin of game show fame 8 “Auld Lang __” 9 Skating danger 10 Texas __: poker game 11 Big Australian bird 12 Gun, as an engine 13 The Spartans of the NCAA 21 Part of NFL: Abbr. 22 TurboTax option 25 Hardwood tree that drops

acorns 26 Fisher who plays Princess Leia 27 Come in 28 “Queen of Soul” Franklin 29 Equip anew, as a machine

shop 30 Ben Stiller’s mom 31 Really bother 32 Clichéd 33 Nike competitor 37 Superman’s birth name 38 Sci-fi classic that introduced

Princess Leia 40 Regains consciousness 41 Poet Silverstein 43 Frequent John Wayne persona 44 A cannonball makes a big one 48 Shepherd’s charge 49 Lamp-to-plug line