DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Construction rod 6 1960s Israeli deputy prime minister

10 Shed tears

13 “Five Feet of Fury” pro wrestler Bliss 14 Alfa __: sports car 16 Jack Reacher

creator __ Child 17 Catching fly balls, turning double plays, etc.? 19 Have lunch

20 Epic featuring the

Trojan Horse 21 Yann Martel novel adapted into an Oscar-winning film 23 “Chandelier”

singer 25 Tonsillectomy M.D. 26 Like an ace who throws a no-hitter?

34 Job safety org.

35 River craft 36 Trendy

38 Take in

39 Intro to

economics? 40 Kunis of

“Bad Moms” 41 Astronaut

Jemison 42 Reason for a sleep mask, perhaps

43 __ 500

44 “Protect the plate,” “Don’t drop the ball,” e.g.?

48 Hanukkah mo. 49 Extra

50 Enters

nonchalantly 55 Rhine wine region 60 Grassy expanse 61 Game rosters, one of which is formed by the starts of three long answers in this puzzle? 63 Links goal

64 Big cat

65 Extreme 66 Laudatory verse

67 Reusable bag 68 Forms puddles

DOWN

1 Nickname for tennis’s Nadal 2 “Night” writer Wiesel

3 “__ waiting long?” 4 Bridge toll unit 5 Salad slice 6 Make a mistake 7 Many a New Year’s Day football game 8 French possessive

9 Soft toy brand 10 Dimpled facial features

11 Collect in return 12 Mysterious Himalayan 15 “The Great Santini” Oscar nominee Michael 18 Falco of “Nurse Jackie” 22 United 24 Esoteric 26 66-Across, for one

27 “Moon Knight” star Oscar __ 28 Worn through, as carpeting 29 Put up preserves 30 Indiana cager 31 Spellbound 32 “Christopher Robin” joey 33 Squiggly diacritic 37 Grabs the check 39 Speed letters 40 “Mamma __! Here We Go Again” 42 Go along with 45 __ Aviv

46 Icy coating 47 Opposite of unfurl 50 Kibble brand 51 Honeyed brew 52 Narrow cut 53 Shakespearean villain

54 Russian denial 56 Grain storage site 57 On the topic of 58 PC keyboard key 59 Those, in Spanish 62 Bard’s before

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