DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Relaxing retreat 4 Picket line

crosser

8 Tied, as sneakers 13 Work like heck

15 Arrived

16 Old piano key

material 17 European car brand that sounds sort of like a Western greeting 18 Ordered like

dictionary words 20 *The Bible’s

golden calf, e.g. 22 Sound of fear 23 Roadside haven 24 About 1/2000th

of a euro, in 2002 26 *Giving a higher mark than students deserve 33 Slimy substance 34 Dolphin family

“killer” 35 Inventor Otis 36 Roman moon

goddess

38 Tease

40 Site of

Napoleon’s exile 41 Where Amin

ruled

44 Puffin relatives 47 Geological time

span

48 *It’s not always the same as one’s assigned sex at birth

51 What a coach gives a base runner

52 Corn unit

53 Suffix with script 56 *Intuition, often 62 Cape Cod and

Baja

64 Former Neet

rival

65 Two in a deck 66 Evening, in ads

67 Required bet 68 Rubbed out,

gang-style

69 NBA conference 70 USO show audience ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues

DOWN

1 Male deer

2 Serve the

wine, say

3 Verdi classic 4 Medical

diagnostic device 5 Colombian

metropolis 6 Alarm clock

toggle

7 On __ of:

representing 8 Loose, like a

translation

9 D.C.’S

Pennsylvania, e.g. 10 Pigeon shelter 11 Shallowest

Great Lake 12 Flemish painter

Sir Anthony van __ 14 Wife of Augustus 19 Light-footed

21 Prefix with scope 25 “It’s __”: “Nobody

wins” 26 Charge triple, say 27 Journalist Farrow 28 “Disgusting!” 29 Water nymph 30 Speck in the ocean 31 “That’s exciting!” 32 Indian bread 33 Water cooler sound

37 “No ifs, __ or buts” 39 Payable now 42 Condescended 43 Jason’s shipbuilder 45 Israeli parliament 46 RBI or ERA 49 On key 50 Russian supermodel Shayk 53 High hairstyle 54 Great Barrier __ 55 Plenty, phonetically 57 Pelvic bones 58 D.C. baseball team 59 Vietnam’s Da __ 60 Banking giant 61 Uno y dos 63 Rapper __ Cube