CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Unexpected obstacle
5 “Pronto!” letters
9 Suffers after a Pure Barre class, say
14 __ Top ice cream
15 Four Corners state
16 “If only!”
17 “Will do!”
18 Emperor after Claudius
19 __ touch
20 Forgettable band with a memorable song
23 Jazz pianist McCoy
24 Unnecessary
28 Pie crust fat
31 Ace a presentation
32 “Pipe down!”
37 Lingerie selection
38 Musical ability
39 Old PC platform
41 Snaky fish
42 Shopping cart fillers
45 Spot for spare change
48 Cook’s Illustrated offering
50 Lake bird with a wild laugh
51 Sotheby’s auctions, e.g.
54 Fragrance
58 Element of irony, and what can be found in each set of circled letters?
61 Like 18-Across
64 Goalie’s success
65 Per-hour amount
66 Not sleeping
67 Diva’s big moment
68 Simpson daughter voiced by Yeardley Smith
69 Came to a close
70 Shout
71 Opening for a hotel key card
DOWN
1 “Ask me anything!”
2 Mary Poppins, for one
3 Out of this world?
4 Went to a tutoring session, say
5 Many a godmother
6 Fret (over)
7 Judge who hit 62 home runs in 2022
8 Galaxy, for one
9 Set one’s sights on
10 “All the Birds in the Sky” Nebula winner __ Jane Anders
11 Monopolize
12 Prefix with dermis
13 Triple __: orangeflavored liqueur
21 Baghdad’s country
22 Room that may have a sectional sofa
25 Respected leader
26 Cucumber salad, coconut rice, etc.
27 Panache
29 Bacardi liquor
30 Blu-ray buy
32 Knightley of “Bend It Like Beckham”
33 “Peter, Peter, pumpkin __ ... “
34 Build
35 Old name of Tokyo
36 Work hard
40 __-cone
43 Error
44 Brought about, as a movement
46 Like a red-carpet event
47 Opens, as a fern frond
49 Former quarterback Manning
52 Writing contest entry, maybe
53 Long look
55 “Reply all” medium
56 “Untrue!”
57 October 31 option
59 Malicious
60 Hand out cards
61 “Insecure” star Issa
62 Woolf ’s “A Room of One’s __”
63 Fit to be tied