CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Not quite round
5 Gumbo vegetable 9 Ply
14 Like every U.S.
president
15 “Coulda been a
lot worse!”
16 Romantic text
17 Fidgety
19 Gymnast Simone who won four golds in Rio
20 Carefree
21 The “I” of “The
King and I”
22 Masters
23 Characteristic of the villain in “The Fugitive”
25 “Is that it?”
27 All-in-one printer
feature
29 Actor Wallach
30 Unconscious
31 “__ goes nothing!” 32 Muse of poetry 34 Navig.
technology
35 T.S. Eliot poem,
with “The”
39 Sprite
42 Admonish
43 They’re on the
phone
47 Classical lead-in 48 Recycle bin item 49 Work on, as a
vintage auto
52 Behold in
amazement
55 Pluto’s largest
moon
56 Trip up
57 Use a wrecking
ball on
59 Ode title words 60 Metaphor in a
gambling debacle 61 Employee hours suggested by this puzzle’s circles 63 Smell or taste
64 Ancient Dead Sea
region
65 Slurpee, basically 66 Tidied, as a lawn 67 TV warrior
princess
68 Sci-fi escape
ships
DOWN
1 “Heavens!”
2 Window topper
3 Twelve-month
4 Thompson of “Switched at Birth”
5 Gift box direction 6 Genghis __
7 Watched again 8 Astound
9 Liquid poured in
honor of a deity 10 Animated
11 Holiday fireplace item
12 Ties, as a score 13 Potatoes often used for fries
18 Alpine lake
22 Island near
Sicily
24 Yet again
26 Physician,
hopefully
28 Light-sensitive
eye part
33 Great American
Ball Park player 36 Like some French
vowels
37 Commandment
verb 38 Spreadsheet
input
39 As a group
40 On a tether
41 Compelling
44 Colonnaded
entryway
45 Reviewed for
typos
46 State
assemblies
50 Skin malady
51 “__ So Unusual”: Cyndi Lauper’s debut studio album
53 Poet’s creation 54 Word with secret
or school
58 Scads
61 Supervillain
Luthor
62 In the know