Today’s Crossword
ACROSS
1 Potato chips source 5 __ bean
9 Rick’s “Casablanca” love
13 “Aww!”
14 Spring bloom
15 Les __-Unis 16 Neighbor of Yemen 17 Large-scale departure 19 Island setting for Melville’s “Omoo” 21 Court order to testify 22 Mindless memorization 24 Farm sound
25 Blue expanse, on a clear day
26 Cost of a car, in most family budgets 31 1860s White House nickname 32 Thought
33 Traffic light color 37 Gardener’s bane 39 Quick taste 41 Produced 42 American flag feature 45 At hand 48 Buddhist school 49 Edmund Hillary’s conquest 52 Fermented quaff 55 Slugger’s stat
56 Get up 57 Removing from the text
60 1971 New York prison riot site
64 Region including Egypt, Israel, etc. 66 “__ be fine”:
“No prob”
67 Sad verse 68 Spell-checker discovery
69 Not virtual
70 __ a one
71 The “Y” in “YTD” 72 TV award, and a homophonic hint to the four longest puzzle answers
DOWN
1 Loch Ness local 2 Adidas rival
3 Home of the NBA’s
Jazz
4 Robert of “Dirty Grandpa” 5 Restricted in number, as an edition 6 Nest egg acronym 7 Hit’s opposite 8 Take for granted 9 “Was __ hard on you?” 10 Stows cargo 11 Caused some nose-pinching 12 Evaluate, as metal 15 Bring to light 18 Traditional black piano key wood 20 Singer Amos 23 Old flames
26 Big mouths
27 Help rob the bank 28 Taunt from the bleachers
29 Emulate Degas 30 “Slippery” tree
34 Do nothing 35 Wordsworth works 36 Attended, with “to” 38 Reduce in brightness 40 __ pressure 43 Rotund
44 Jazzman Blake 46 Pilot
47 Take 10
50 Distance between bases, in feet
51 Go to bed 52 Commercial writers 53 Bizet opera priestess 54 Tribal leader 58 Avant-garde 59 Motown’s Marvin 61 Receipt detail 62 Linguine seafood sauce morsel
63 One on your side 65 Daycation destination