DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Prayer wheel spinner 5 “You know you want to!” 9 Half a pop quartet 14 Like some defenses 15 Outsized promotion 16 San Antonio mission 17 Fixes beforehand 18 Border on 19 Jurassic giants, for short 20 Phrase on a card in Desert Monopoly? 23 Pelican State sch. 24 Passé 25 “The Red Tent” novelist Diamant 27 Sanaa citizen 29 Stable environment? 31 Clearasil shelfmate 33 Doll with many advanced degrees? 36 Nevada city on I-80 39 Calendar col. 40 Hinged fastener 41 Part of the year that’s filled with possibility? 46 Pirouette point 47 Actress Taylor-joy 48 Dismays 52 Bamboo fencing? 54 Capote nickname 55 Time capsule time 56 Sport whose players wear furry hides? 60 Bundle of wheat 62 Apple variety 63 Sweeties 64 Soeur de la mère 65 “No time to wade through this” initialism 66 Sparkle 67 Provide backing for 68 Word with box or car 69 Nevada city on I-80

DOWN

1 Haughty 2 Having a melody 3 With 7-Down, masterpiece 4 “And don’t forget ...” 5 Star of the 1925 film “The Gold Rush” 6 “That’s on me” 7 See 3-Down 8 Team that shares an arena with the Liberty 9 Pietà figure 10 Defense mechanism? 11 Nunavut neighbor 12 Chilean’s “I love” 13 Brillo alternative 21 Mood 22 Threads 26 x or y, on graphs 28 John Legend accomplishment, briefly 29 Myanmar, once 30 Java setting 32 “No prob” 34 Highly questionable 35 Seehorn of “Better Call Saul” 36 Life-saving pro 37 Glance 38 Element of a warrior pose 42 Got tipsy 43 __ close to schedule 44 Craftivist’s creation, at times 45 Fuzzy memory 49 Entertain sumptuously 50 Childlike Rowan Atkinson character 51 Sends regrets 53 Cool kin 54 Oscar winner Swinton 57 Some military figs. 58 Collard greens kin 59 Superlative prefix 60 Fr. holy title 61 Frenemy of Lando

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