Today’s Crossword 53 West Coast gas brand 55 Twice-monthly tide 56 Prone to prying 57 Market surplus 58 With skill 59 Powerful wind 61 Name change indicator
ACROSS
1 Game fish
5 Body wrap spot 8 Clams up, with “down” 13 Jaunty tune
14 Like a dotted note,
in mus.
15 Overflowing (with) 16 Sign of spoilage 17 Ending with Wal 18 High-calorie cake 19 Kontinental Hockey League trophy named for an astronaut 22 Wrangler maker 23 Homer’s neighbor 24 Have grand plans 26 Airport area with carousels 31 Pulitzer Prize-winning author James
32 One of a clashing
pair, perhaps 33 Gobbled up
37 Moral misstep 38 Planning to wed 41 Glorifying homage 42 Do a bakery job 44 Part of pewter 45 Olympian warmonger 46 One arranging gigs 50 1965 Yardbirds hit 52 Corrosive substance 53 Fruity beverages 54 Joke used repeatedly ... and aptly found in 19-, 26-, 38-, 46- and 54-Across
60 “The Kiss” sculptor 62 Old Royale 8’s 63 Jessica of “Dark Angel” 64 “Ready Player One”
novelist Ernest
65 Eye protector
66 Clout
67 Missouri River tributary 68 Seeker of intel
69 Eye woe
DOWN 1 Paperless journal 2 “Radames’ Letter” musical 3 Trudge (through) 4 Off-the-wall
5 Getz of jazz 6 Pique-nique place 7 Bona fide
8 One way to stand 9 WWII flag-raising island
10 Peeling gadget
11 Big name in makeup
12 Smith of Fox News 14 Wee bit 20 Stephen of “Counterpart” 21 “Don’t text and drive” ad, e.g. 25 Mottled
26 Enjoy the sun 27 Feudin’ with 28 Heredity unit 29 Albumen container 30 Tropical raccoon relative 34 Zoomed 35 Garden in a Sistine Chapel mural 36 Source of some tweets 38 Genesis kingdom 39 Gimlet liquor 40 World’s third-most spoken language 43 Belittling 45 Inevitable generational differences 47 Dinghy implement 48 Small knobs
49 “We the Living” writer Rand 50 Megastars
51 __ blitz