CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Activist Brockovich played by Julia Roberts

5 Without a cent

10 Youngsters

14 High-fat, lowcarb diet, casually

15 Merits

16 Falco of “Nurse

Jackie”

17 Backyard vegetable patch, e.g.

19 “__ Enchanted”: Anne Hathaway film

20 Surveil secretly

21 Socialized at leisure

23 Stretch the truth

25 Prefix with pod

26 Configuration before customization

34 Tiny criticism

35 24-Down soother

36 Hearing-related

37 Tennis great Arthur posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom

39 Titled

41 Mani-__

42 Hops along

happily

44 Shadowboxes

46 Pen tip

47 Element of early

internet art

50 Lifesaving skill,

for short

51 Gaming console with a gesturebased controller

52 Leafy bowlful with hard-boiled eggs

58 Bub

62 Civil rights icon

Parks

63 Brainstorming breakthroughs, and the ends of 17-, 26-, and 47-Across?

65 Opposed to

66 Bring to mind

67 Pull sharply

68 Breakfast for

dinner, say

69 Used needle and

thread

70 Concludes

DOWN

1 Cardiac readouts, briefly

2 Gather crops

3 Coy response to

a compliment

4 Drift into

dreamland

5 Actor/director

Stiller

6 Many Megan Thee Stallion songs

7 “Derry Girls” girl played by Louisa Harland

8 Celtic artwork

feature

9 North Carolina’s

Biltmore __

10 “Don’t stop

now!”

11 Unoccupied

12 Pickle herb

13 Official emblem

18 Giant computer

of the 1940s

22 Miss, in Mex.

24 Unwanted beach

souvenir

26 Once-common

storage media

27 Moral principle

28 Dog walker’s line

29 __ Bay

Buccaneers

30 Lipstick mishap

31 “Fame” star

Cara

32 Lowest point

33 Silver-tongued

34 Astronauts’ gp.

38 Dumpster firelevel blunder

40 __ a blank

43 Tentative tastes

45 Space series

genre

48 Building site

sights

49 Camp project with rubber bands

52 Make up for procrastination, perhaps

53 Sharpen, as a

blade

54 “¿Cómo __

usted?”

55 Adoration

56 Declare publicly

57 Hockey feint

59 Incline

60 Terra firma

61 Requests

64 Went first