DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stock holder? 6 South Dakota

region

14 __ All: car care

brand

15 Collection of Buddhist sculpture, Chinese jades, etc.

16 Specialized work at a confectionary? 18 Application 19 Investigative journalist __ B. Wells 20 Tiff

22 Connecticut home

of ESPN studios 26 Nail polish brand with an Always Bare for You collection

27 Prefix with

gender

28 Body care brand 32 Tone down 33 Caribbean

gastropod 36 Instructor for a

monarch? 38 Nickname for Luciano Pavarotti? 40 Estate that went all-out with turquoise paint? 42 Grind together 45 Baking measures 46 Fantasy brutes 48 Loose __ 49 Subdivision unit 50 Plead 53 Deep-dish chain,

familiarly

55 “And what have

we here?” 58 Investment

option, briefly 59 Vicar who puts the pedal to the metal? 65 Telemarketer’s

accessory

66 Hard section of a

textbook, perhaps 67 Compact cars? 68 Made a big

deal of

DOWN

1 Cul-de-__

2 Letters for Kate

Middleton

3 Punk subgenre 4 Place 5 Orchardist’s

concern

6 “Hey, ewe!” 7 Italian wine

region

8 Ran out of juice 9 “Deck the Halls”

chorus fragment 10 Political commentator Navarro 11 Catches 12 Worrisome educational statistic

13 Attach, in a way 17 Boxer Spinks 21 Level

22 Email on the q.t. 23 2016 Olympics city 24 Disappoints 25 Preference 29 Energy

30 Item on a menu 31 Medical chart

datum 32 Subatomic particle © 2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

34 Cartoonist Addams, familiarly 35 Adjustable border 37 “Star Trek” spinoff before “DS9” 39 Steamed bun 40 Org. concerned with privacy laws 41 __ hut

43 “My bounty is as boundless as the __”: Juliet 44 Panama, for one 47 Cut a bit

51 Wreck

52 Hoarse

54 Spanish : noche ::

Italian : __

55 God who gave up an eye to gain wisdom 56 Shakes a leg,

quaintly 57 Second word of

many limericks 60 Prefix with gram

or graph 61 Comprehend 62 Bit of advice 63 Early afternoon

hour

64 Rare color?