DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Costume

7 Word with friendly or interface

11 NFL team leaders

14 Do very well

15 Backsplash piece

16 In the style of

17 Having the same ability

19 Prom rental

20 Firefighting aid

21 On the __: being broadcast

22 In the loop

24 Touch and go, grammatically

27 Amount to take, in an Rx

31 Property claim

32 Acting together

33 Gardener’s bagful

35 “Good point”

39 “Guilty or not guilty?”

42 Back of the neck

43 D.C. helper

44 Exams for PH.D. candidates

45 Top line on many an application form

47 Deny

48 1939 Stephen Foster biopic

53 “Coco” studio

54 Collectible records, for short

55 “Roll Tide” school

59 Yalie

60 Rarely ... or what each set of circled letters is?

64 Hoopla

65 Brewpub array

66 In a scary way

67 Dreaming sleep stage

68 Preferred brownie piece, for some

69 Spanish “You’re welcome”

DOWN

1 “Conversely,” in texts

2 “Hmm ... no chance”

3 Square root of nueve

4 Pillars of Islam count

5 “__ had enough!” 6 King-jack, e.g., in bridge

7 Wombs

8 Polite title

9 West __: high-end furniture outlet 10 Back up, as a backup

11 Doha’s country

12 Words on a jacket

13 Jazz woodwinds

18 __ for tat

23 Stopped running, as a stream

24 A long time

25 Tapenade ingredient 26 White or Blue river

27 First light

28 Workplace safety org.

29 Source of some suds

30 Rabbit ears

33 Less likely to speak up, maybe

34 Ref. work that added “fresh-person” in 2021

36 Narrow inlets

37 NCAA Bruins’ home

38 Site for handmade gifts

40 Get under control

41 Crowd eruption

46 Make fizzy

47 Like matryoshka dolls

48 Asparagus piece

49 Olivia of “House”

50 Set theory truth

51 “Uncle!”

52 Corp. honchos

55 Swiss capital

56 Asics competitor

57 Fuse

58 “Game of Thrones” girl __ Stark

61 Chap

62 New car stat

63 Word before a birth name