CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Mixes in

5 Pricing word

9 Tidied, as a lawn

14 “An Officer and a

Gentleman” star

15 Run the show

16 Many a flower

girl

17 Lotion

component

18 Wyoming

national park

20 Charmin maker,

familiarly

22 Put forward

23 Needle hole

24 Nocturnal birds

of prey

26 Chicken tikka __

30 “Everything

must go” event

32 De-pleat?

34 Hor. map line

35 Guitar lesson

basics

37 Military title for

POTUS

38 JFK alternative

39 “Tabula rasa” philosopher John

40 Video chat

annoyance

41 Live coal

43 Hobbit enemy

44 __ polish

46 “The View” Emmy winner Shepherd

47 Purpose

48 Gurgling sound

49 Post-WWII

alliance

50 “Wiggle” singer

Jason

52 Sushi prep verb

54 Brewpub barrel

57 Meditate on

59 Gibbons of talk

TV

61 “No need to

mince words”

65 __ pricing

66 Think alike 67 “West Side

Story” pair

68 Old character

69 The Brownings,

e.g.

70 Garden

annoyance

71 Newspaper

commentary

DOWN

1 Obviously impressed

2 Supply chain

inconvenience

3 Sport with teams

of quadcopters

4 Tourney rank

5 Rowing machine, informally

6 Hearing-related

7 Period of the Peloponnesian Wars

8 Layers on a farm

9 Foyer

10 Eating patterns

11 Word before “Shorty,” “Smart,” “Hard,” and “Out,” in film titles

12 Environmental

prefix

13 Bear’s lair

19 Evil spirit

21 Hollywood Foreign Press Association awards

25 Director Craven

27 Emotionally crushed, and an apt description of the circled elements in this puzzle?

28 Beer choice

29 Centipede maker

31 Ararat lander

33 Semi 35 Billowy mass

36 Belmont Stakes

racer

40 Shang-Chi player

Simu

42 Converged

45 Without help

46 Punkie Johnson’s

NBC show

51 Part of a

Cinderella story

53 Give a speech

55 Online

periodical

56 __ community

58 Common result in championship chess

60 Currency

symbolized by €

61 Track circuit

62 Self-image

63 Italian three

64 Psychedelic

letters