CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Otherwise occupied

5 “Checkmate!”

9 Concert gear

13 “__ upon a midnight dreary ... “

14 Origami bird

15 Henhouse

16 “¡__ mío!”

17 Rabbit kin

18 Color of unbleached linen

19 Dinner and drinks with a preacher?

22 Actor Jeong

23 “Quite so”

24 Move, roots and

all

26 Thousands of years, for a megalith?

31 __ Diego

34 CNN anchor

Burnett

35 Brain teaser aid

36 Bouillon cube

maker

38 “Queen __”: pop

music nickname

40 Big fetes

41 Quechua

speaker

42 Nonpayment

risk, for short

44 Squalid digs

45 Exam for a certificate in mediation?

50 “Same!”

51 Titter

55 Golf ball position

57 Brief moment, or what three long answers in this puzzle have?

60 Gumbo pod

62 Miso soup base

63 Possess

64 Ray

65 Like some rural

roads at night

66 Rid of wrinkles

67 “__ there, tiger”

68 Poems of praise

69 Ice cream brand with a birthday cake flavor

DOWN

1 __ Tree: place of enlightenment in Buddhist tradition

2 Collective

bargaining group

3 Give a good

talking-to

4 “Okay, I get it”

5 Country where

Farsi is spoken

6 New Orleans

voting district

7 Like challenging

pushups

8 Lipton rival

9 Royal flush

card

10 Nojito and nada

colada, for two

11 Sweat outlet

12 Like some silk or

sugar

14 Garment similar

to a hijab

20 Parking post

21 Short music

releases

25 Job safety org.

27 Bit of cacao

28 Month before

febrero

29 Little pest

30 Site with

handmade crafts

31 Omit

32 Actress

Hathaway

33 Sign at some

museums

37 Sack __

39 Thus far

40 “Check it out”

43 Watch the birdie?

46 UFO beings

47 Tegan and Sara,

for one

48 “Independence Day” director Emmerich

49 Computer pro

52 Stockpile

53 Diplomat

54 Perfect places

55 Ear part

56 Store whose packages typically contain Allen keys

58 Archipelago part

59 __ end up

61 Sedaris of “The Mandalorian”