CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues

7 Hubs: Abbr.

11 Catch

14 Operating

mindlessly

15 “Call on me! I

know!”

16 Mined resource

17 Getting some

sun

18 Like a phenom’s

rise to stardom

20 *”Black Widow”

co-star

22 Placeholder

abbr.

25 Court divider

26 Light lunch

27 Spy of kid-lit

fame

30 Olympics

participant

32 Oxen harnesses

33 “Should that be

the case ... “

35 Costa del __

36 *Cathedral

bench

40 Isr. neighbor

43 Genius Bar pro

44 Capital city on the Andean Plateau

48 Forced

51 Binge watcher’s

unit

53 Venomous snake

54 Sound from a

fold

55 Came in first

56 *Offer of

assistance

61 Much of nursery

school

62 Of France

66 Brain scan

letters

67 Comparable

68 New York prison

in 1971 headlines 69 Mormon initials 70 Enthusiast,

colloquially

71 Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues

DOWN

1 Towel holder

2 De Armas of “Blonde”

3 Happy cry

4 Wide gap

5 Elec., for one

6 Zero

7 Cupid colleague

8 “__ what?”

9 Campus mil. unit

10 “Jeepers!”

11 “Anything goes!”

12 Japanese “thank you” 13 Alison who wrote the graphic memoir “The Secret to Superhuman Strength”

19 Stone for a Libra

21 No longer

working

22 Poetic possessive

23 Steamed bun in

Asian cuisine

24 Genesis boat

28 “Parks and __”

29 Sorta

30 Metaphor for no-longerrelevant history

31 Blouse

34 Mediamonitoring org.

37 Great Basin

native

38 Actor Wallach

39 Is past?

40 Surgical tool 41 Sang some high

notes?

42 Colorful sale

labels

45 “Kaboom!”

46 Commotion

47 Garden type

49 “Ratatouille” rat who loves gourmet food

50 Greek islander

52 Evidence of workplace gender bias, perhaps

54 Mix

57 Walk in the park,

maybe

58 Mideast

dignitary

59 Pledge

60 Beauty store

chain

63 Fleur-de-__

64 Curling surface

65 Automobile