DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Chow down 4 Military bigwigs 9 Bar codes? 13 Injure severely 15 “This __ to be

good” 16 Hemoglobin

mineral

17 College chem

course, informally 18 Basketry willow 19 Actress Garr 20 Big name in 1980s heartland rock

23 Opening words 24 “Pomp and Circumstance” composer 25 Leslie __ Jr. of

“Hamilton”

28 Not much

32 Some suede kicks 37 One who may be shorthanded at work?

38 Wish undone 39 Flag

41 “Baby Cobra”

comedian Wong 42 Hub city for Royal

Jordanian Airlines 45 “If I Were King of

the Forest” singer 48 Oh so very

50 Turn on an axis 51 Medieval Times

prop 54 Shot-putter? 58 Frustratingly difficult, and an apt title for this puzzle 63 Brainstorm 64 Established

beliefs

65 Tall birds

66 Is appropriate 67 Get 100% on the

test

68 Movie theater

drink

69 Quartet for Jennifer Hudson, for short

70 Question type 71 BOS rivals

DOWN

1 Japanese term whose similarity to “emotion” is coincidental 2 Crooner Neville 3 Snug

4 Market upswing 5 Scheme

6 Spry

7 Narrow racing boat 8 “__ Nona”: Tomie depaola picture book

9 English major’s

course, informally 10 Geometry

calculation 11 Wriggly bait 12 Clean up loose

ends, in a way 14 Basketball Hall of Famer Earl “The Pearl” __ 21 Symphonic finale 22 Snags

26 Allowed 27 Chi-town exchange,

with “the”

29 Dark greenish

blue

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31 Wrap that shouldn’t be microwaved 32 Brit twit

33 Sport that’s big in Japan 34 Sought-after fish 35 Hundred Acre Wood kid 36 Females with pig tails

40 Bud

43 No less than 44 Ark-itect?

46 Step up

47 Low pair

49 Not now

52 “Time in a Bottle” singer

53 Margins

55 “Will Trent” star Rodríguez

56 Den

57 Many an assignment in 9-Down 58 Board game with car-shaped tokens 59 “Capisce!” 60 Atkins variant 61 “Sign me up!” 62 Gp. headed by Jens Stoltenberg