Today’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 More hot under the

collar

7 Topper with a tassel 10 Managed care gp. 13 Repetitive World

Cup cheer 14 Commuter vehicle 15 Alley __

16 Celebrate with

abandon

18 Boring routine 19 Teen sleuth Nancy 20 Exchange for cash 21 Deep opera voice 23 Razor sharpener 25 Corn serving 26 “Uh-huh”

27 Lift a few weights 31 “Wheel of Fortune”

purchase 34 High-priority task 35 __ Jones’ locker 36 Mob enforcer

38 Girls in the family 40 Island off Tuscany 41 Arts and __: summer camp activity 45 Before, poetically 46 Sunday NBC public affairs show 49 “The Well-Tempered Clavier” composer 50 Long-armed primate

51 Bit of prevention 55 Soak in the tub 56 Ignoring, with “to” 58 Parliament member 59 Ride for Jesus on Palm Sunday 60 Like a shirt condition suggested by the ends of 16-, 27- and 46-Across

63 Edge of a glass 64 One shaken to seal a deal

65 Keen judgment 66 SSW’s opposite 67 Tweeter’s “Wow!” 68 Parable messages

DOWN

1 Jell-O shapers 2 Warn

3 Ward off

4 “Grease” music

genre

5 Munchkin kin 6 Gridiron zebras 7 Nuclear reactor

tube

8 H-like Greek vowel 9 “Shaun of the Dead”

creature

10 Kentucky Derby, e.g.

11 Position the cursor without clicking 12 Vision: pref. 14 “About time!” 17 Goes (through)

slowly 22 “All kidding __ ...” 24 Saucony rival 28 Chew noisily 29 Three-card game 30 Wall St.’s

“Big Board” 31 “Pardon me” 32 River drainage region that covers 11 African countries 33 “I haven’t a clue!” 37 Fire lighter 39 “That __ awesome!” 42 Poetry performance 43 Add as a supplement

44 Flip (out) 47 “Pinball Wizard” band 48 Gunpowder element 52 Bellini opera 53 Angler’s basket 54 Utopian places 55 Place for a Deere, but not deer 57 Hoax

61 Crash into 62 Green prefix