CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Rain’s counterpart
6 Bottomless pit
11 Scoundrels
15 Quartet voice
16 Quality
17 Fly-fishing need
18 “Two stars! My spaghetti always sticks to the sides!”
20 North __ Sea: Kazakh lake
21 Son of Hera
22 Actress Ortiz
23 Part of SCOTUS
25 Magnate
27 “Half a star! The ceramic is flaking off the cast iron!”
29 Established
30 The Falcons, on scoreboards
32 Munro pen name
33 Poem of homage
34 Poolside piece
36 Kit letters
37 “One star! Chocolate gets clumpy, and sauces always separate!”
41 Not cool
42 Planet Fitness payment
43 Conclusion
44 SoCal school
47 Tanqueray, for one
48 Behave
51 “Zero stars! It spits hot oil everywhere!”
54 Words mouthed while holding an imaginary phone to one’s ear
56 Like a colorful garden
57 “Now I see!”
59 One-named “Locked Up” singer
60 Spelling of “BH90210”
61 Kitchen array, or an apt title for this puzzle?
64 School near Windsor
65 Useless
66 Bowen of “Modern Family”
67 Office fixture
68 Razz
69 Some dance elements
DOWN
1 Day when everyone’s a little Irish, familiarly
2 Town crier’s cry
3 Walking stick, e.g.
4 False
5 Memorable span
6 Buckets
7 Wide
8 Source of Tibetan butter
9 Afternoon rest
10 Occurred to
11 Mild cigar
12 French farewell
13 Genre portmanteau
14 Greek moon goddess
19 Soda opener
24 Chi preceder
26 “The Gathering Place” island
28 Date line?
31 Tiny, made tinier
34 Barracks bed
35 Transition
36 Kaitlin’s “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” role
37 Disparaging term for some frat guys
38 “Holy wow!”
39 Not exactly promising words
40 Actress Headey
41 Flat, in a way
43 Improved, hopefully
44 NorCal airport
45 “You need to let this go”
46 2021 winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
48 Acid neutralizer
49 Informal invitation at the door
50 Stiffens
52 Toy piano sound
53 Carpentry files
55 Drink like a kitten
58 “Stop the __”: protest sign
62 Oolong or rooibos
63 Club VIPs