The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Crown sparkler
6 Like the Mandarin
and Thai languages
11 Surgery ctrs.
14 Spanish birthplace of St. Teresa
15 Food flavoring
16 Conjunction that’s the “B” in the FANBOYS mnemonic
17 *Clue suspect dressed in red
19 Commotion
20 4x4, briefly
21 Boston newspaper
22 Foreboding sign
23 Package
25 *The key to good locks?
27 Poems of praise
29 Muscle twitch
30 Regarding
33 Civil rights icon Parks
36 Tropical fruit
40 *“I confess! You got me!”
43 Tennis star Naomi
44 Silicon Valley’s __ Alto
45 Pond plant
46 “__ be the judge of that”
48 Temptation
50 *Parakeet’s home
55 Elbows
59 Some nest eggs, for short
60 Puts underground
62 Baseball official
63 __ Quixote
64 Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters?
66 Ted Lasso setting: Abbr.
67 Out of style 68 Painter’s stand 69 Night anticipating the Ball Drop, informally
70 Where most of “Moby-dick” takes place
71 Romance novelist Danielle
DOWN
1 Become clogged, as a printer
2 “Buenos Aires” musical
3 Knowing better now
4 Golfer Ernie known as “The Big Easy”
5 __ out: reacted angrily
6 Russian autocrat
7 “Queen of All Media” Winfrey
8 __ wafers
9 Nailed an exam
10 Net judge’s call
11 President who appointed two women to the Supreme Court
12 Less civil
13 Curling piece
18 Dip stick?
22 Happened
24 Popular group in school
26 Latvia’s capital
28 Sudsy bar
30 Earlier
31 Dubious, slangily
32 Argentine aunt
34 Nine-digit ID issuer
35 LGBTQ+ advocacy org.
37 Dating app info
38 “Peace” shape
39 Go on to say
41 Barber’s powder
42 Stinging insect
47 Rodent in a maze
49 Raves (about)
50 President who declared Juneteenth a federal holiday
51 “The Twilight Zone” specialty
52 “Home on the __”
53 Speculate
54 Wipe clean
56 False front
57 Quiz-show host
58 Say “C-H-E-E-S-E”?
61 Self-assembly furniture giant
64 Chemical in some plastics, briefly
65 “Dig in!”