TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Spicy

5 Scottish

highlander

9 Earth pigment 14 Great Lakes port 15 Rapunzel’s

pride

16 “Peachy!”

17 Makes a

mistake

18 Camp Swampy

bulldog

19 Famed viol.

20 Grumpy

colleague

21 Lovers

23 Barterer

25 Lock brand

26 Kept secret

27 Enthralled

29 Frankenstein

milieu

32 Wading bird

35 Winter Olympics

event

36 Plump and juicy 37 Sign on a door 38 Thought on

39 Part of MIT

40 Cement

component

41 Kinds

42 Workers’ pay

43 Environmental

prefix

44 Wildebeests

45 Lay down

46 Soap target

48 Twinkled

52 Inclined

56 Tax shelter

57 Thresholds

58 Flu symptom 59 Black mark

60 Strong alloy

61 Court order

62 Gas main

63 Running late 64 Hockey goals 65 Goes on the

stage

DOWN

1 Long grasses

2 Helpful pointer 3 Approximately, in dates

4 Toady’s answer 5 — down (ate) 6 Cafe customer 7 Diet

8 Slow gait

9 Beat an incumbent

10 Aluminum or copper 11 Moving rapidly 12 French state

13 Fishing poles 21 Make cloth

22 Overpromoted 24 Get on the horn 27 Twice-baked

breads

28 Seasons

30 Basilica area

31 Gambles

32 Donut feature 33 Grand in scale 34 Home improver 35 Dilly

36 Lariat

38 After-dinner

candies 42 Pesky plant 44 Horrible

45 Rains ice

47 Laid off

48 Astronaut’s

garb (hyph.) 49 Imitate

50 Pour out lava 51 Goes with

52 Furtive

whisper

53 Beatles’ meter

maid

54 One of a chess

player’s octet 55 Fairy-tale

villain

59 Exercise place