DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sarah Spain’s

network 5 Percussion set 10 Cards

14 “Go on, git!”

15 Tickle

16 __ were

17 Textile machine 18 Nigerian seaport 19 “Ciao”

20 Medic with an office at Fisherman’s Wharf?

23 Expert 24 Extremely chill 25 Leaders inclined to work as a group? 31 Extremely cold 32 Channel marker 33 Picked up the tab

35 BYU or NYU 36 Sun screen

37 Strive (for) 40 African country in the Maloti Mountains 41 Drains 42 Summits 45 Captain Hook’s incredulous assessment of his nemesis? 47 Statue base 49 Melber of MSNBC 50 Puts comfy shoes through rigorous testing? 56 Tropical spot

57 Safari equine 58 Most CFOS 60 Some game 61 “Middlemarch”

novelist

62 Bend at a barre 63 Retired boomers 64 Action

65 Blood bank fluids

DOWN

1 Subj. for those wishing to be bilingual 2 Utterly beyond repair

3 Play down 4 Motto for the ruthless 5 Meteorological effect caused by refraction 6 Desktop with an

Applecare option 7 Literary award with a spaceship logo

8 Starting on

9 Lab work 10 Thinned (down) 11 Pulitzer-winning journalist Wilkerson

12 Early ICBM 13 Hung around

21 Play-__

22 “Science of Logic” philosopher Georg

25 Small ammo 26 Director Jean-__

Godard

27 LAX postings 28 Superhero once played by Stephen Amell on The CW

29 “__ Comes to Pemberley”: P.D. James novel 30 Obama daughter

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36 Rats, gnats, and

brats

37 Element in an algebraic equation

38 Wall St. event 39 Key that exits full-screen mode

40 Brand of packaged bagels

41 Is extremely

frugal 42 Ladybug prey 43 Shuts

44 “The Gleaners” painter Jean-françois 46 River that rises in the Bernese Alps 48 Fuzzy states 51 Move to a warmer state? 52 Drama honor 53 Cut short

54 Ink

55 Place to hibernate 59 “Wide Sargasso __”: Jean Rhys novel