CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1 6

Opera solos Afrobeat pioneer Fela __

10 Atlas pages

14 Birdcage feature

15 Part of, as a plan

16 __ vera

17 Creamy dip for

French fries

18 Attractive person with gray hair

20 Anderson Cooper’s channel

21 Female sib

23 Like some

restrictions

24 Pea soup

flavorer

26 Hit the slopes

27 Genesis twin

28 Many a Farsi

speaker

31 Singer Simone

35 Hep “Gotcha”

37 Scripture-related

39 Perform a simple

operation?

41 Safe to drink

43 Org. that ensures water is 41-Across

44 No-win

situations?

46 Medical checkup

48 Singer Del Rey

49 Greek theater

51 Scandinavian

people

54 “Encanto” songwriter __-Manuel Miranda

56 Recorder mounted to a windshield

58 Dawn on

62 Political org. with a donkey symbol

63 Stashed

64 “I can be better”

66 __ acid

68 Speech therapy

subject 69 Average gestation period for a dolphin

70 Button on a

library app

71 Vow

72 “This might be broken” shorthand

73 No-nonsense

DOWN

1 People of the southern Great Plains

2 Spanish queens

3 *”A Matter of Life and Death” heavy metal band

4 Knee part, for short

5 Mint leaf used as a sushi garnish

6 Mouth, slangily

7 Prefix with cycle

8 Ratted (on) 9 *Ralph Ellison novel about the Black American experience

10 “Dirty” cocktail

11 Automaker __

Romeo

12 Shoddy

13 Erotic

19 Shriek of fear

22 *Fencer seeking revenge in “The Princess Bride”

25 Future flower

29 Demean

30 Quill tip

32 *Noisy amenity in a motel hallway

33 Siesta

34 In the style of

36 Bitter brew,

briefly

38 Supervillain

Luthor

39 Georgia airport:

Abbr. 40 Part of una

semana

42 Actor Danson

45 Walk oafishly, like the Jabberwock slayer

47 Campfire

residue

50 Calf feeders

52 Pine Tree State

resident

53 “Count me in!,” or an apt description of the answers to the starred clues

55 Burning anger

57 Surgery marks

58 Norway’s capital

59 __ seeds:

smoothie choice

60 Assign to a role

61 Small bills

65 __ tai: cocktail

67 Came together