DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mooch, as a

smoke

4 Royal elephant of children’s literature 9 Functional

14 Slice of history 15 Alpaca relative 16 Inheritance from

one’s parents? 17 Sherlock Holmes costume accessory 20 Marriage

21 Desert watering

holes

22 Means of sticking a shower caddy to a tile wall 26 Fungus gnat, e.g. 29 Paul Anka’s

“__ Beso”

30 Score more than 31 Figure on the last float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

32 To the left, at sea 34 Takes effect 35 Support from the

bullpen 38 Bibliography list 39 Neglects to

mention

40 “The Good Place”

creator Michael 41 “Sunday NFL Countdown” network

42 Agcy. operating

full-body scanners 45 __ out a win:

almost lost 46 Annual football

game in Arizona 49 Convene again 51 Dubbed

52 Isn’t credible, or a literal description of 17-, 22-, 35-, or 46-Across? 57 Muse of poetry 58 Supreme Court

justice Kagan 59 Nail polish brand 60 Luminous 61 Weather forecast

aid 62 Web portal with Bing

DOWN

1 Perplex

2 Ice planet beyond Saturn

3 Realismo __: Isabel Allende genre 4 Russian pancakes 5 Melmac native of 1980s TV

6 __ leaf: stew herb 7 Bordeaux beau 8 Expired, as time 9 Fleece-lined boots 10 Mind readers 11 Sort of

12 “__ Misérables” 13 Serpentine curve 18 “__ my cup of tea” 19 Athleta parent company 23 Orchestral reeds 24 Tank the efficacy of, in gamer slang 25 Arched-back yoga asana

27 Risotto recipe verb 28 Khaki kin 31 Splinter group 32 Mentions indirectly © 2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

33 Docking spot 34 Duration of

employment 35 Novelist Riordan 36 Light and delicate 37 Little rascals 38 “The Waste Land”

poet’s monogram 41 “Both would be

fine” 42 Narrow-headed

drum

43 Wins every game

in a series 44 Astronaut Buzz

who was the

second man on the moon 46 Athletic

47 Peace Nobelist

Sadat

48 What did ewe say? 50 Skier’s surface 52 Anti-narcotics

law gp.

53 URL ending

for charities 54 Suffix with

pay or Cray 55 Conducted 56 Makeup of

16-Across