CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Yogurt-based drink

6 Choose

9 “The Equalizer”

network

12 Pins included in many Ikea furniture kits

13 Oberlin College’s

state

14 Horde member

in Tolkien

15 *Device sold with some sheets of hard candy

17 “The Marvels”

director DaCosta

18 Zaftig

19 Genetic strand

20 Happily __ after

21 Pastoral poem

22 *Took from the

top

25 Label

26 “Nova” subj.

28 Suffers

29 Tokyo, long ago

30 Diner patron

33 Yuletide

35 Some partners, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues?

39 Stew meat

40 Style

41 Amber, for one

43 Brand of kitchen

bags

45 Dudes

46 “It’s __-brainer!”

47 *”The Irishman” role for Al Pacino

52 “Not only that ...

“

53 Neck of the

woods

54 Salad dressing

base

55 Crazy about

57 Pop

58 *Teenage vampire slayer of film and TV 61 Fig. affected by

weather

62 Lago contents

63 Removes, as a

knot

64 Marina __ Rey,

California

65 Sighs of pleasure

66 Visibility

reducers

DOWN

1 Ambitious aspiration

2 Nasty

3 Observed

4 Winter coaster

5 “More or less”

6 “Wowza”

7 Thanksgiving dessert

8 The Blue Jays, on sports crawls

9 Chat sesh

10 Terse 11 Beginner’s knitting project, perhaps

12 Tchotchkes

13 Universal

opening?

15 Hackneyed

16 Genesis boat

20 Unsuccessful

Ford

22 Locale

23 Microscopic

24 Gets together

quietly

26 Proper

27 World Heritage

Site in Algiers

31 Business card

no.

32 Kelly Clarkson’s

first record label

34 Cost of a suit?

36 Molten rock

37 Federal org. that inspects workplaces 38 Features of

many alarms

42 Heath-covered

wastelands

44 Foolish one

47 Over it all

48 Hopping mad

49 Purple Heart,

e.g.

50 Sports org.

based in Zurich

51 Pop __

52 Let in or let on

55 Public transit system in San Francisco, familiarly

56 Tsps. and tbsps.

58 Pasture sound

59 “Blah”

60 Dim __: cuisine often served in steamer baskets