DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Nail tech’s layers 6 Open mic night

host 11 Automated

Twitter user 14 Fire in the belly 15 Take one’s

sweet time 16 Dedicated lines

17 Top that! 19 Prefix with

binary

20 Fair

21 Consider 22 Kabocha or

pumpkin, e.g. 24 Make-up artist? 26 Mike who voices

Shrek

28 David Ortiz’s

1,768, briefly 30 Beat that!

34 Park fixture

for two

36 Sofi Stadium

player

37 Half and half 38 Caroline

du Sud, e.g. 39 Like some angles 41 Intestinal

fortitude

42 __ on the side

of caution 43 Soon-to-be

grads

44 Realm entered through a wardrobe 46 Strike that! 50 Miami-__ County

51 “Count me out” 52 Wee

54 Test versions 56 Farm

skyscraper 58 Hairstyle for

Nina Simone 62 “Kinda”

63 Take that! 66 Hoover, for one

67 Come about 68 Like a foggy trail

path

69 Four-time WNBA

champion Bird 70 Divulge

71 Fine partner

DOWN

1 Cornfield calls 2 Cookie that has a lychee flavor in China

3 States further 4 Slate of chores 5 __ Lanka 6 Trimming tools 7 Nutmeg spice 8 Chewy chowder chunk

9 Animal on Idaho’s state seal 10 Application that may help reduce crow’s-feet 11 Game show climax, often 12 Garbage feature 13 Mind, as a bar 18 Doc intended to prevent leaks 23 Windy City airport code 25 Ariana Grande’s “God __ Woman” 27 Gulf of Aden republic 28 Evoking the past 29 “Just wait a bit more!” 31 Tie for roasting 32 Remove, as a ribbon

33 Painted Desert landform

34 Leak out slowly 35 Stinging insects 40 Regimen with Workouts of the Day 41 Ambiguous point 45 Podcast interrupters 47 Org. regulating pesticides 48 Mischief-maker 49 Freestyle skier Gu who won two gold medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics 53 Where to wear a metti 54 Auction actions 55 Old Testament twin

57 “In that case ...” 59 Terrarium plant 60 Bust 61 “__-dokey!” 64 Foundry delivery 65 Place to retire