MONDAY’S PUZZLES

ACROSS

1 Word before “Sea”

or “snake”

6 Sounds at pounds

10 Musician’s booking

13 “Am not” retort

14 Medicinal succulent

15 “Duke of ___” (’60s song title that contains two titles)

16 *”Thrift Shop” rapper (Theme hint: Note the last several letters of each starred clue’s answer)

18 Fruit in a gin

cocktail

19 Bang shut

20 National Gallery of

British Art, today

21 Part of an act

22 The best man gives

one

24 Soul seller?

25 *”Cagney & Lacey”

co-star

31 Hiking trails

35 Clearing in the

woods

36 Three-layered

cookie

37 Order a la ___

39 Penalize, informally

40 Bras and slips

42 Polite chaps

43 *Former country that residents called Deutsche Demo-kratische Republik

B i W lk 46 47

Veer, like a jet Vice President Harris

Ice’s state of matter Musical about hippies protesting the draft Show up for Analogous *Out too late Pull with effort ___ Pet (terra-cotta “companion”)

63 Lead or gold

64 Corn unit

65 Lip or cheek

66 Little brothers,

maybe

51 54

56 58 59 61 62

DOWN

1 Engine parts

2 PH.D. students’

exams

3 Summarize

4 Words on a volunteer’s name tag

5 Texter’s chuckle

6 Kawasaki rival

7 Tons

8 Skin opening

9 Take notice of

10 Wind that may

blow down a tree

11 Golf club with

grooves

12 Elation

15 Cadillac SUV

17 Engrave

21 Leo or Libra

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23 Start’s start?

24 Leg joint

26 Composer Ned

27 Make a choice

28 CNN anchor

Burnett

29 No longer in Drafts

30 Droops

31 ___ vault (Olympic

event)

32 Opera solo

33 Two ___ for a

twenty

34 Hampering

37 Ship’s staff

38 Make public, as

grievances

41 Old oath that

anagrams to “aged”

42 Dodgeball venue

44 Dogs from Japan

45 DEA agent

48 Concur

49 Garrets’ relatives

50 Vexed constantly

51 “The Sweetest

Taboo” singer

52 Gumbo vegetable

53 One may cheat a

polygraph test

54 “That’s funny!”

55 Yard sale

stipulation

57 Birds that fly

almost silently

59 Lenovo laptops,

e.g.

60 Person who’s often

booed, briefly