CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Throw with effort
6 Like some moody punk music
9 Hold responsible
14 Own up to
15 Slip on
16 Complete
17 Sound that may accompany a salute
19 Meager
20 Novelist Tyler
21 Dull pain
22 Golden Fleece
ship
23 Inexpensive way
to spend time off
26 Escorted to the
door
31 Freezer cubes
32 Appropriate
inappropriately
33 Moisten while
cooking
36 Pixie
39 “Mention you, and there you are!”
42 “Inside the NBA”
airer
43 Make joyful
44 “Goodnight, __”:
Lead Belly song
45 Grazing field
46 Gawked
47 Ride shotgun
53 Smack hard
54 Early Ron
Howard role
55 At one’s __ and
call
59 Spooky
61 “Come again?”
63 Says goodbye
64 Mined resource
65 PayPal
alternative
66 Reward for a pup who obeys the commands at the starts of 17-, 23-, 39-, 47-, and 61-Across 67 Roofing goo 68 Change to fit
DOWN
1 “Good joke!”
2 Genesis garden
3 Prayer ending
4 Despicable
5 And so on: Abbr.
6 Formal decree
7 Coffee-andchocolate flavor
8 Perfectly pitched
9 “Butter” K-pop band
10 Pinpoint
11 Game company since 1972
12 Snapple’s __ Madness
13 John who sings “Cold Heart” with Dua Lipa
18 Final
24 Quote as a
source
25 Crushed the test
26 Romance novel
emotion
27 “NBA Today”
airer
28 Song for two
29 “You for Me”
singer Rita
30 Property manager’s responsibility
33 Painter’s deg.
34 QB stat
35 “Nevertheless, __
persisted”
36 At any point
37 Queue
38 Ran away
40 “Frozen”
snowman
41 Stretch of
history
45 Nyong’o of
“Black Panther”
46 Ladder rung
47 Cleaned the
floor
48 “Word on the
street is ... “
49 MLB exec
Joe who was the Yankees’ manager for 12 seasons
50 Automaton
51 Word with space
or soap
52 Landlocked nation in West Africa
55 Raised, as farm
animals
56 Poet __ St.
Vincent Millay
57 Give for free
58 Hardwood flaw
60 Approximate fig.
62 Principal on ABC’s “Abbott Elementary”