CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Striped pet

6 “__ chic!”

10 Gear tooth

13 Sprightly

14 Bridge

predecessor

15 Back on a ship

16 *Research without direct application

18 Spending power,

for short

19 “No Ordinary

Love” singer

20 Eleven digits?

21 Treadmill setting

23 *Czechoslovakian movement of 1968

27 Yuletide song

28 33-Across years

29 Paper or plastic

30 Father of the

Muses

33 Score half

34 *Helpline

offering

38 “I see,” at sea

39 Noodle nugget

40 “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s __”: Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema

41 Policy of some

restaurants

44 “An Caighdeán Oifigiúil” language

45 *Commerce

imbalance

49 Recycle bin, e.g.

50 Shades

51 Becomes

compost

55 “Gross!”

56 *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue?

59 Baseball great

Ripken

60 Comes up

against

61 Isaac of “Moon

Knight” 62 U-turn from

WSW

63 Response heard during a pool game

64 Pier

DOWN

1 Spigots

2 Río flower

3 __ of paradise

4 Cover up, in a way

5 [Nod]

6 Org. with 27 member states

7 Salon procedure

8 Key to going back?

9 Grassy expanse

10 Word on an Italian menu that means “hunter”

11 Those at fault

12 Classic Pontiac muscle car

14 Annex 17 Anthracite or

lignite

22 __ de Triomphe

24 Nevada city about 100 miles from Burning Man

25 The Aztecs of the NCAA’s Mountain West Conf.

26 Bloke

27 Center of a 3-4

football defense

29 Spanish dialect

in the Big Apple

30 Character debuted by Zadie Smith?

31 Poetic

preposition

32 Can. neighbor

34 “You __ be

serious”

35 Leave out

36 Home of many Quechua speakers 37 Means to an

end?

42 Final words of an engagement

43 Top removed before dashing off ?

44 Conditional programming word

46 Mover’s rental

47 Cost

48 Identifies (as)

52 Largest member of the dolphin family

53 Leader in the Bulgarian Empire

54 Feudal laborer

55 Diamonds, in

slang

57 “Last Week Tonight” network

58 “Bam!” kin