DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Scholarly titles,

briefly

4 Certain

cephalopods 10 Spaghetti

strap top 14 “Please tell me that didn’t happen!”

16 Rights activist

Clooney 17 Banishing acts 18 Choice 19 Strategically placed whoopee cushion, say 20 Waters down 22 Canine greeting 23 About half the weight of an average car 26 Request for a

distraction 28 Flower plot 29 Vulgar

32 Hightail it

33 King nicknamed

“Longshanks” 35 Pro fighter 36 Cyborg detective

of TV and film 40 Formal denial 41 Email

attention-getters 42 Shim, for

example

44 Slant

45 Saw from

behind?

48 Most charged 50 “Take a chill pill” 52 Include

53 Popular tech

service 56 Goddess credited in a Milky Way origin account 57 Stat in standings 59 Smallest Central

American country 62 Job under the

hood

63 Ones who see

what you mean 64 “Come Sail Away”

rock band 65 Applies, as

flattery 66 Nanjiani’s “The Lovebirds” co-star

DOWN

1 Going platinum,

maybe

2 “Hunger”

memoirist __ Gay 3 Ate dinner 4 Massage

therapist’s supply 5 Vinyl successors 6 Buffoon

7 Cry from one who knows the answer 8 Near-the-deadline response, at times 9 “Whatevs” 10 Farm country

avian cry

11 “You don’t doubt

me, do you?” 12 Husky cousin 13 Doorbell

response

15 Song one can’t

perform?

21 Dept. in a “Law &

Order” spinoff 24 Shoppe name

word

25 It can be faked with air freshener

27 “My heavens!” 30 Power measure 31 Refuse 33 “Paradise Lost”

et al.

34 __ coffee

36 Puts on the hard

drive

37 Left in disgust or

fear, slangily 38 Is ready to act 39 Oscar winner Paquin

43 Brain scan inits. 45 Garden tool 46 Northern sky sight 47 Minimalist 49 Shire of “Rocky” 51 Herring type 54 Road game 55 Metallica drummer Ulrich

58 Census checkbox 60 Cancer follower 61 Soccer mom’s usual ride