DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “The Hobbit” figure 6 Moneyless deal 10 It may involve an exchange of letters

14 Like a raucous

crowd

15 Grassy “pet” 16 Binged (on) 17 FAN

20 Donkey Kong, e.g. 21 Tiny bit

22 Gas in an arc

lamp

23 Cultural opening? 24 Working away 26 FAN

33 Dark

34 Holy Week season 35 Menagerie 36 Organa family

royal

37 Outback

youngsters 39 Cover up

40 Is for many 41 Trombone’s symphonic neighbor 42 First two-time

Nobelist

43 FAN

47 False move

48 Try in court 49 “Star Wars” genre 52 Contrary girl of

rhyme 53 Relaxation spot 56 FAN

60 Oblique look 61 Lowland

62 Din

63 Bigelow products 64 Cut without mercy, as a budget 65 Maker of iComfort mattresses

DOWN

1 Swimmer Torres with 12 Olympic medals

2 Sub alternative 3 As good as it gets 4 Joplin work 5 Train load 6 Nova __

7 “Just a doggone minute!” 8 Legal __ 9 Legal __ 10 Longs for enviously

11 Mr. Wednesday’s real identity in “American Gods” 12 Artistic style of L.A.’s Eastern Columbia Building 13 Churchill’s 1955 successor 18 Hand-holding celebratory dance 19 Be real 23 Where Vladivostok is 24 __-deucey 25 Arithmetic column 26 Solzhenitsyn subject

27 Día de Reyes month

28 “That wasn’t quite true ...” 29 Do housework 30 Netflix drama set in a Missouri mountain resort 31 WWII riveter 32 Devices used with oxcarts 37 Rubbish 38 Flute’s symphonic neighbor 39 Sierra Club founder

41 With “the,” East and West, in a Kipling ballad 42 Colorful set 44 They’re music to job-seekers’ ears 45 Molded 46 Maryland athlete, familiarly 49 Cellar contents 50 First Nations tribe 51 Thought 52 Backless shoe 53 Start to wake up 54 Sitter’s challenge 55 Geometry figure 57 Power agcy. since 1933

58 Jazz band staple 59 Landmark ’70s case anonym

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