CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Mustang automaker

5 Honey liquor

9 “__ Mia!”: ABBA musical

14 Nike rival

15 Convention center event

16 Noble gas in some lasers

17 Prepare for a newborn’s arrival

18 Softball glove

19 Entice

20 *Title of many compilation albums

23 Old 1-Across named for a horse

24 Stores

27 Costello partner

30 Sweetie

31 Vote in favor

33 Actress Polo

34 *Not at all talkative

38 Take along

40 ISP pioneer

41 Covert agents

42 *Taylor Swift song with the lyrics “You can’t get rid of it / ‘Cause you remember it ... “

45 “To be,” in French

46 Up to, briefly

47 Directional suffix

48 Agitation

50 White __ machine: sleep aid

52 Sight-singing teaching method

54 *”There’s no way to know yet”

59 Infomercial dude

62 Dancer Falana

63 Drink whose logo has frosted letters

64 LEGO brand for tots

65 “Stay” singer Lisa

66 CBS military drama

67 Reproductive health pro

68 Pop artist Warhol

69 Superlative acronym spelled out by the starts of the answers to the starred clues

DOWN

1 Long, pointed tooth

2 “Evvie Drake Starts __”: novel by Linda Holmes

3 Counterpart of run in calculating the slope of a line

4 Unit of information

5 Foul ball caught at a game, e.g.

6 Have life

7 Likely will, after “is”

8 Biblical verb

9 “Crash Into Me” rock group Dave __ Band

10 Childish retort

11 Old RKO rival

12 Messy hairdo

13 Industrious insect

21 __ for tat

22 “No need to tell me what happened there”

25 Mineral that resembles gold

26 Passover meals

27 Facing the pitcher

28 German capital

29 S.O.S alternative

30 Kristen of “The Good Place”

32 Strong point

35 Young deer

36 Adversary

37 The “O” of iOS

39 Contributes to, as a group gift

43 Utah city near Provo

44 Soothing song

49 Super Bowl org.

51 Setting of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels

52 Faint

53 Lubricated

55 “Boo’d Up” singer __ Mai

56 Danish shoe brand

57 A Skywalker twin

58 For fear that

59 Hullabaloo

60 Name

61 Fuel efficiency stat