CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Scarecrow innards

6 Italian port

11 Get better,

maybe

14 Gear bit

15 Cheri of “Scary

Movie”

16 Musical about Henry VIII’s many wives

17 *Bilingual Ed Sheeran song featuring Camila Cabello and Cardi B

19 Fury

20 “Oh, come on!”

21 Aims

23 “Love Stuff ”

singer King

24 Tub gunk

26 Vane point

29 *R.E.M. hit single on “Out of Time”

34 Poetic rhythm

36 Plenty

37 Jazz org.

38 “¡Ay, Dios __!”

39 Anthem that ends, “We stand on guard for thee”

42 “Dear old” one

43 Over thataway

44 “Shane” star

Alan

45 “Spider-Man”

trilogy director

47 *Carl Perkins rockabilly classic popularized by Elvis Presley

51 Jet set jet

52 Wrote to online,

briefly

53 Feels bad

55 TikTok upload

58 Very nearly

62 Rita Dove’s “__ to

My Right Knee” 63 “You’re blocking the view!,” and what is needed to complete the answers to the starred clues?

66 Decathlon

number

67 Top-flight

68 Under control

69 Put away

70 “I’m out”

71 Puts one over on

DOWN

1 “Cut it out!”

2 Food sold in

blocks

3 “American Pastoral” Pulitzer winner

4 Word in several ESPY Award categories

5 Cheese shape

6 Loosey-__ 7 Basic French

verb

8 Composer

Rorem

9 Nickel source

10 Wind

instrument?

11 Much of an atlas

12 Mary Cassatt’s “Little __ in a Blue Armchair”

13 Former couples

18 Lip __

22 “Srsly?!”

24 Actress Ward

25 Dolt

26 Awards for

“Schitt’s Creek”

27 Vowel set

28 “The Favourite”

actress Emma

30 Total stranger

31 __ folk

32 “Becoming”

memoirist

33 Low point 35 One to emulate

40 Docket item

41 Ritalin target:

Abbr.

46 Unsuccessful

candidate

48 Conk out

49 Less taxing

50 Say “cheese” by rubbing one’s palms together, e.g.

54 Many apartments in former industrial areas

55 Rock the __

56 Concept

57 Minor progress

58 Chip in?

59 “__ arigato”

60 Over again

61 Norms: Abbr.

64 São Paulo

greeting

65 Card