DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hint of color 6 Biblical tower site 11 Inquire

14 Play area? 15 Greek salad fruit 16 Sushi topper 17 Pride symbol 19 Texter’s “Hang on

a sec” 20 “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” director Lee 21 No-frills font 22 Wee bit 23 Arachnid relative that resembles a crustacean

27 Sex therapy

subject

29 Helpful supporter 30 Loads

31 Give in a little 33 Irritate 36 Functions perfectly, and what can be said about the starts of 17-, 23-, 46-, and 57-Across

40 Brief alarm? 41 Fake

42 Singer India.__ 43 Gargantuan 44 “The Country Girls” novelist Edna

46 Minty frozen treat at Mcdonald’s every March 51 School year

division 52 Swarms (with) 53 Noble __

56 With 11-Down, Michigan college town 57 Nutty-tasting

winter vegetable 60 TNT part 61 Sounds from

happy cats 62 Loosen,

as a knot

63 Storm center 64 Borden

spokescow 65 Utopias

DOWN

1 Actress Reid 2 Setting of the graphic novel “Persepolis” 3 People next door 4 “Erin Burnett Outfront” channel 5 Knight’s tunic 6 “Ziggy Stardust”

singer David 7 Some Italian sports cars, for short

8 Star of HBO’S

“Barry”

9 Actress Longoria 10 Part of a race 11 See 56-Across 12 Kinda

13 Shish __ 18 Approximately 22 Slippery,

as a road 24 Barnyard sound 25 Actress Kurylenko 26 Utility abbr. 27 Newton trio 28 “Am __ early?” 31 Dividing lines 32 Luau strings,

briefly

33 Diversify, in a way 34 Ohio border lake 35 Marvel mutants who battle Magneto

37 Egg (on)

38 Macy’s red star, for one

39 Literary “Listen!” 43 “I wonder ...” 44 Units of resistance 45 Language from northern Spain 46 Utter

47 “Atlanta” actor

Brian Tyree __ 48 Golfer Palmer,

to fans

49 Beach volleyball Olympic gold medalist __ Walsh Jennings

50 Pick up

54 Spelling clarification phrase 55 Wally Lamb’s

“__ Come Undone” 57 Imitate 58 __-de-sac 59 German

conjunction

By Alexander Liebeskind & Yu-chen Huang © 2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.