CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Acrobat format 4 Mumford & Sons instrument

9 __ school

13 Non opposite

14 Burmese or Lao

15 Trading floor

order

16 *Players who cover wide receivers

19 Part of a winesap or a wineglass

20 Major headache

21 Actress Shawkat

24 Pals

28 *Film fanatic

33 Uttered

34 “... because you don’t want to cross me”

35 Burj Khalifa’s

fed.

37 Frog’s kid-lit

friend

38 “You’re it!”

39 *Black Friday

slogan

42 Go green, say?

43 Gay __

45 GQ or EW

46 Pampers

product

48 Chimney ducts

50 *Couple in the honeymoon phase

52 Plays

matchmaker for

54 Greek war god

55 18-Down units

58 Actor Neeson

62 “This doesn’t feel right,” and what can be said about some letters in the answers to the starred clues?

66 Intense anger

67 Birthplace of the

violin

68 Darjeeling, for

one

69 Neither calm nor

collected 70 Like some foggy nights

71 Cribside chorus

DOWN

1 Vanilla units

2 Piece for two

3 Marching band

pipe

4 Block

5 Donkey

6 Hawaiian island whose population was 84 in the 2020 census

7 Cup of joe

8 Snack machine

inserts

9 Old Testament

collection

10 Lengthy register printout from CVS

11 Mammals also known as wapiti

12 Letters from a

polite texter

17 Message in

Outlook

18 Org. with sashes

and badges

22 On sale, say

23 Pronoun-shaped

girder

25 Favorable optics,

for short

26 Approved

27 Passover

rituals

28 Recurring

themes

29 Soothsayer

30 Ride the couch

31 Fire, in Spanish

32 British Invasion

adjective

36 Arctic Circle

duck

40 2021 documentary about actor Kilmer

41 Taunt

44 Funds for a

rainy day

47 Market section

49 Introductory

course

51 Jane Fonda’s

alma mater

53 Starchy luau

dish

56 Award related to

a Tony

57 Slugger Alonso nicknamed “Polar Bear”

59 Whit

60 Not many

61 Degs. for

ballerinas

62 Uno e uno e

uno

63 “I’ve been __!”

64 “Moonlight” Oscar winner Mahershala

65 Manhattan

liquor