Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Ostentatious
suburban pads 11 Dry riverbed 15 View from
Muscat 16 Benjamin’s
value
17 Prickly plants 18 This, in Taxco 19 __-cone 20 Schubert vocal
compositions 22 Benign cyst 23 A detective may
follow one 26 Earth __ 27 Boom box
button 29 Mitigate
31 What inspiration
can come in 32 Make oneself
heard clearly 35 Old portico 36 Advice from a
cohort in crime 40 Charlie’s fourth
wife
41 Basque, e.g. 42 Invite with a
wave
44 They might be
gross
48 Old number? 49 Mil. academy 51 Hindu title 52 Dispute
53 Offer unwanted
advice 56 Formerly 57 “Was __ loud?” 59 Spreading
throughout 62 Usual
63 “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” poet
64 Beauts
65 Ski resort
offering
DOWN
1 “’Night, Mother” playwright Norman
2 Zeus’ father 3 Layers of
stone
4 White House
nickname
5 Bill
6 King anointed
by Samuel 7 Traitorous
crime
8 Irish actor
Milo
9 Poor
10 Ed.’s
requirement 11 Distress 12 Work under 13 Smoke __ 14 “Who knows” 21 Street cred 24 Honeybunch 25 “Listen!”
28 A moment ago 30 Arrived 31 Oftenornamental vessel
33 Nice when it’s
hot?
34 Present day? 36 Eliciting
thoughtfulness 37 In direct
confrontation 38 Caterpillar also called a looper 39 Most bunts,
briefly
43 TV planet 45 Capital on
Luzon 46 Fixes, as text 47 Lengthy
campaigns 49 Corpulent 50 Uncertain dating
word
54 Uber and Lyft
had them in 2019 55 Cipher
58 Mantra chants 60 Barley bristle 61 Tri-__