CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Subject of the Caldecott Honor book “The Right Word”

6 Lines of praise

10 “The __ Tour”: record-setting 2023-24 concert series

14 Butterfly’s stage

15 Stroke of luck?

17 City between Bismarck and Minneapolis on I-94

18 __ store

19 Swiss cheese?

21 Camp site

22 Being of Jewish

folklore

24 Unleavened

flatbread

25 Band whose work is featured in the musical “Head Over Heels”

28 Go on and on

32 Cool kin

33 Relish

35 Cheek muscle,

for short

36 Acrobat’s

company

38 AQI monitor

39 Played again

40 Brown ermine

41 “__ Baby”: 2020 film set during a Jewish ritual

43 Soul provider 44 Shirley Jackson’s genre

46 Biological building block

48 Emotional wound

50 Assortment

51 Threat to some colonists

55 Seuss reptile

58 Barrier visited by tourists

60 Hawkeye missile

61 One who doesn’t like to just veg?

62 Two-terminal device

63 Trees with oval leaves

64 Sub contractor?

65 Elusive Himalayans

DOWN

1 Jazz motif

2 Ilhan who was the first person to wear a hijab on the House floor

3 Remote target

4 Holiday concoction

5 Extremely tight

6 Omega, in physics

7 Bad lot

8 Bull in a product name Salt, say 10 Theme that plays over the closing credits

11 Hitchcock’s first film in color

12 Soon, long ago

13 Third-qtr. month

16 Photogenic

20 Beneficiary of a Sonic boom?

23 Shifts

25 Refuse

26 Was compelled 27 Some campus returnees

29 Ragtime dance

30 Net income?

31 Nephric

34 Yogurt-based condiment served with 24-Across

37 Counter points?

42 Über

45 Souped-up junker

47 Nation known for temperance 49 “The Canterbury Tales” pilgrim

51 Peak

52 Time for some wrap parties

53 Zurich transport

54 Stagger

56 California wine town near Stockton

57 Short-horned bighorns

59 Calendar abbr.