DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mike and __: fruit
flavored candy 4 Spanish small
plates
9 Bungling 14 Supervillain
Luthor
15 On one’s toes 16 Fourth prime
number 17 Fish-throwing
Muppet __ Zealand 18 Wall Street
fluctuation 20 Sambuca flavor 22 Spanish
grandmother 23 Unpaved side of
the road
27 Patella place 28 Common first section of a menu, familiarly 29 Food Network
host Garten 32 Jeans accent 34 Architect’s
creation
37 Take a different route, and a hint to the circled letters 41 Grumble over 42 Swamp reptile,
for short
43 “lol oops” 44 Exceedingly 45 Mountain
climber’s goal 49 Boundary of a
black hole
53 See where one’s
coming from 55 Like a couch
potato
56 Overly cute
“So cute!” 60 Business VIP 61 Country singer
Gill or writer/ producer Gilligan 62 Deceitfulness 63 Meat in a Dr.
Seuss title 64 Shutter strips 65 Les __-Unis 66 Player coming off the bench, for short
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1 “Let me find out” 2 Passionate about 3 Post-divorce party 4 Brings under
control
5 Styled after
6 “As __ our
agreement” 7 Noah’s boat 8 Fantastic deals 9 Debate topic 10 More contemporary 11 Like a supervillain 12 Former MLB catcher Tony in the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame 13 “Star Trek”
series, for short 19 Not yet
scheduled: Abbr. 21 Fondue fuel 24 Safe space 25 Persuasive
column 26 High-strung 29 Sundial three 30 Private aid gp.
31 “I Hope You Dance” singer Lee __ Womack
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33 Tennis player
Swiatek
34 Half a droid name 35 Prefix with
system
36 Use a colander 37 “Ghosts” network 38 Yonder lass 39 Minnesota senator
Klobuchar 40 Poison ivy
reaction 44 High-strung 46 Prague residents 47 “The Island of
Doctor __”: H.G. Wells novel 48 Bury
49 Put in power 50 Bouquet holders 51 Pilot’s update,
briefly
52 Reacts to yeast 53 Bubble and churn 54 One of four active
volcanoes in Italy 56 Den sets
57 Not trendy 58 Fjord kin 59 Simple sammie