DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ongoing drama 5 Sounds of

revelation

9 __ bean

13 Cereal coveted by

a silly rabbit 14 Garlic piece

15 Baaing mamas 16 *Playful semiaquatic mammal

18 Merit

19 “__ the Force,

Luke”

20 Looked over 21 Green shade

named for a fruit 22 Electric car maker 24 *Seafood served

on the half shell 27 Flower starter 28 Thompson of “Thor: Love and Thunder” 29 Parcel of land 31 Mammal with elephant and leopard varieties 32 Chiding sounds 36 *Really get down

to the music 38 *Floral perfume

ingredient 40 Black as night

41 Sail the seven __ 43 Spiteful, as gossip 44 Baseball Hall of

Famer Stengel 46 Campfire residue 47 *Request with a

tight timeline 51 Broadcast again 54 Incredible

bargain

55 Verdi opera 57 Hotel at JFK named for a defunct airline 58 Turn sharply 59 *“Only the

Lonely” singer 62 Stiffly proper 63 Helps in a heist 64 “Do you __?”

65 Moral lapses 66 Fail to notice 67 Miranda of

“Homeland”

DOWN

1 Walk like a

peacock

2 Pop up 3 Volunteers in the community one grew up in, say 4 Cord cutter?

5 Take in or let out 6 Reason to get all

gussied up

7 “__ Maria” 8 Spanish verb

similar to “estar” 9 Is completely

comfortable 10 Anticipate

11 Vivacity

12 Ed who played

Lou Grant 14 Playfully shy 17 Share a bedtime

story with 21 Kvetching cries 23 “Magically

delicious” cereal 25 Has on 26 Norwegian city with a Viking Ship Museum

29 Prefix with

athlete 30 “Apollo 13”

director Howard 31 Fine equine 33 “Really? There’s

no more?” 34 Tool set

35 Wily

37 Cold War initials 39 Egyptian beetle 42 Long-fingered lemurs of Madagascar 45 “You’ve got

mail” ISP 47 Politely declines,

maybe 48 Development sites

49 Greet and seat 50 Very funny folks 52 Terse refusal 53 Total stranger, or a three-word hint to the answers to the starred clues 56 Rx writers, often 59 Animal logo on a Dodge truck 60 __-Wan Kenobi 61 Caveat in a text