CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Hint of color

6 Biblical tower

site

11 Inquire

14 Play area?

15 Greek salad fruit

16 Sushi topper

17 Pride symbol

19 Texter’s “Hang

on a sec”

20 “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” director Lee

21 No-frills font

22 Wee bit

23 Arachnid relative that resembles a crustacean

27 Sex therapy

subject

29 Helpful

supporter

30 Loads

31 Give in a little

33 Irritate

36 Functions perfectly, and what can be said about the starts of 17-, 23-, 46-, and 57-Across

40 Brief alarm?

41 Fake

42 Singer India.__

43 Gargantuan

44 “The Country Girls” novelist Edna

46 Minty frozen treat at McDonald’s every March

51 School year

division

52 Swarms (with)

53 Noble __

56 With 11-Down, Michigan college town

57 Nutty-tasting

winter vegetable

60 TNT part 61 Sounds from

happy cats

62 Loosen, as a

knot

63 Storm center

64 Borden

spokescow

65 Utopias

DOWN

1 Actress Reid 2 Setting of the graphic novel “Persepolis”

3 People next door

4 “Erin Burnett OutFront” channel

5 Knight’s tunic

6 “Ziggy Stardust”

singer David

7 Some Italian sports cars, for short

8 Star of HBO’s

“Barry”

9 Actress Longoria

10 Part of a race

11 See 56-Across

12 Kinda

13 Shish __

18 Approximately

22 Slippery, as a

road

24 Barnyard sound

25 Actress

Kurylenko

26 Utility abbr.

27 Newton trio

28 “Am __ early?”

31 Dividing lines

32 Luau strings,

briefly

33 Diversify, in a

way

34 Ohio border lake

35 Marvel mutants who battle Magneto

37 Egg (on)

38 Macy’s red star,

for one 39 Literary

“Listen!”

43 “I wonder ... “

44 Units of

resistance

45 Language from

northern Spain

46 Utter

47 “Atlanta” actor

Brian Tyree __

48 Golfer Palmer, to

fans

49 Beach volleyball Olympic gold medalist __ Walsh Jennings

50 Pick up

54 Spelling clarification phrase

55 Wally Lamb’s “__

Come Undone”

57 Imitate

58 __-de-sac

59 German

conjunction