CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1

Period after Shrove Tuesday

5 Lyricist

Gershwin

8 Inca __: Peruvian

soft drink

12 Mideast rulers

14 Blues’ org.

15 Passing words?

17 *Bounce around the Caribbean, say

19 Tropical ray

20 Beg

21 “It’s open!”

22 Brought into a

discussion

25 *1983 film that won an Oscar for Best Original Song

27 Adjust after a

wrong turn

29 Courts

30 “The Waste

Land” poet

31 Place to make a

round trip?

32 Lab animal

35 Greeting between members of an exclusive club, and what’s hiding in the answer to the starred clues?

40 Sked “Don’t

know yet”

41 Pack it in

42 Petco Park

player

43 Apiece

45 Animal that can run using its flippers

47 *School of Hindu

philosophy

51 Antique car

design feature

52 Houston team

53 French bread?

55 Sun block? 56 *Was completely

clueless

60 Pueblo dwelling

material

61 Country rockers

Little __ Town

62 Willing parties?

63 Just scrapes (by)

64 Smelter’s supply

65 Show appreciation at a poetry slam

DOWN

1 Lanai wreath

2 First responders,

briefly

3 Bupkis

4 Feature of a

magician’s stage

5 Gulp down

quickly

6 “Darkwing Duck” character Dr. __ Dendron

7 French peak 8 __ dragon

9 2000s first

family

10 Tablecloth fabric

11 Top story?

13 NBC sketch show

16 Well-reasoned

18 Skillful

21 A major, for one

22 Peak

23 Big star

24 Writer Jong

26 “__ Lake”

28 Colorado’s Sleeping __ Mountain

31 Sonar operator?

32 Pie chart lines

33 Ohio hometown of poet Rita Dove

34 Cold

temperatures

36 Support pros

37 “omg so funny!”

38 Tub with jets 39 50-50,

facetiously

43 Wrap

44 Fangirls over,

perhaps

45 Greasy fingerprint, maybe

46 Merit

47 Programming language with a coffee cup logo

48 Lines that break

the fourth wall

49 “No harm, no

foul!”

50 Show again

54 “I’m excited!”

56 “The White

Lotus” network

57 Annoying racket

58 Notable stretch

of time

59 Nile cobra