TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Whale like Shamu

5 Cooking spice

10 Pharmacist’s weight

14 Commend

15 A Chicago airport

16 Teeny bit

17 View as

18 Board game

20 Saturate

22 Sheets and such

23 Walk

25 Desiccated

26 Omelet ingredient

27 This, to Caesar

28 Sis and bro

32 Conduct

33 Respond

35 Plant disease

36 Speaker’s pauses

37 — it up (have some laughs)

38 Roman 1101

39 Imitated

41 Salon offering

43 Salad veggie

44 Zilch

45 Pantry pest

46 Gets in touch with

48 Quaff

50 Opinionated

51 Interlocked

54 Survives

55 Provocation

57 Boundaries

61 Actor Gosling

62 Competitor

63 Color variation

64 Yin complement

65 Panache

66 Smack a mosquito

DOWN

1 Passe

2 — Dawn Chong

3 Pool hall item

4 Complimented

5 Peach dessert

6 Orange-andwhite rental (hyph.)

7 Armor-crushing weapon

8 Vex

9 Pay no attention to

10 Gloom

11 Forum site

12 Very much

13 Occupies, as a post

19 Travel choice

21 Nov. and Feb.

23 Everest guide

24 Combed, in a way

25 Wind indicators

26 Mop up

27 Visit often

29 Not susceptible

30 Threw the rider

31 Farm enclosures

34 Gazing at

40 Jaunty

41 Las Vegas NFLers

42 Long letter

43 Mollycoddles

47 Straw item

49 Damp

50 Commonplace

51 Like a swamp

52 “Watermark” chanteuse

53 Survey

54 Tariff

56 With, to Fritz

58 Even as we speak

59 Chromosome material

60 Thickened, as pudding