CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 __-as-you-are party

5 Wedge or pump 9 Apple’s Touch

and Nano

14 Help with a

robbery, say

15 Phone in a purse 16 “I kid you not”

17 Wind current that affects weather patterns

19 Barton of the

Red Cross

20 Purpose

21 First rainbow

color

22 First Peace Corps director Sargent __

24 Lipton rival

26 Apple mobile

platform

27 Pet rodent’s

exercise gadget 34 Concerning

37 Held the deed to 38 Mai __: cocktail 39 Guns, as an

engine

40 Nest of chicks

41 Turkey meat

preference

42 Top worn with

jeans

43 Birth-related

44 Numbered supermarket section

45 Good survival

skills

48 Brit’s bathroom 49 Filmdom awards 53 Longtime TV

fitness guru Jack 57 Job ad letters

58 “The Matrix”

hero 59 Sumatran ape 60 Sunbeam brand ... and a literal hint to the circled letters

63 Miata automaker 64 Jai __

65 Latin being

66 Sanctify

67 Clue or Risk

68 Peepers

DOWN

1 Bayou cuisine

2 More than plump 3 Doles (out)

4 UFO pilots, presumably

5 Riot, in the funny way

6 Take to heart

7 Rio greeting

8 Shade trees 9 Narrow, exclusive

group

10 Refined manner

11 Norwegian royal

name

12 Desperate, as

straits

13 Char on a grill

18 Halloween trick

alternative

23 Put on the payroll 25 In this way

28 Alphabetizes, say 29 Time for semiannual clock changes: Abbr. 30 __ Gay: WWII

bomber

31 Vowels after zetas 32 British nobleman 33 Facebook

thumbs-up

34 Part of MFA 35 Borscht basic

36 Partner of “done

with”

40 Relay stick

41 Brake rotor

43 Nightlife sign’s

light source

44 On the briny

46 African antelopes 47 Dorm pal

50 Unable to sit still 51 Baseball Hall of

Famer Pee Wee 52 Tender spots

53 Bausch’s partner 54 Asia’s vastly

diminished __ Sea 55 Lie idly (around) 56 Periodical with a

URL

57 Reason to study 61 Dockworkers’ org. 62 Match, as a bet