Today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 __ Plaines:

Chicago suburb 4 J. Edgar Hoover

Building org. 10 Catch

14 Suffix with hero 15 Sea between Greece and Turkey

16 Dutch South

African

17 They’re ominous 19 Decent-sized lot 20 “No more,

thanks”

21 End of many long

weekends: Abbr. 23 Ad __ committee 24 Many a “Twilight”

character

25 Gulf State native 27 That, in Oaxaca 28 They’re luminous 32 Word in a

January song 33 Wood strip 34 Song first sung by Ethel Waters at Harlem’s Cotton Club ... and a hint to four other long answers 40 Flat-bottomed

boat

41 “Sesame Street”

pal of Zoe 42 They’re

clamorous 49 “Jingle Bells”

contraction 50 Last Supper

question

51 “Ivy and __”: kidlit series by Annie Barrows 53 Infamous Amin 54 More than

unfriendly 55 Breed of sheep 57 Astrological

transition point 59 They’re ruinous 62 Wasatch

Mountains resort 63 “Twilight”

vampire

64 Suffix with

Brooklyn

65 For fear that 66 Trounces

67 Some NFL

blockers

DOWN

1 Finished a job 2 Dental layer 3 Composer

Rachmaninoff 4 Food truck fare 5 Believed 6 Swelled head 7 Pot-au-__:

French stew 8 Outlaw

9 Happy way to

break out 10 Abbr. in an

unfilled TV slot 11 New __, NY: home of Iona College 12 Ford’s first

minivan

13 Like some

concrete

18 Big ape

22 Bird’s beak 25 Sole

26 Corn Belt region 29 Guffaw syllable 30 Rum __ Tugger:

“Cats” role 31 __Kosh B’gosh 34 Bus kiosk

posting

35 Ones seeing

things 36 Dominate 37 K-12, in

education 38 Latin lover’s

word

39 Parking violation

risk

40 Showing no

emotion

43 502, in old Rome 44 Steer clear of 45 Saudi Arabian

capital 46 Iberian river to the

Mediterranean 47 Carl with nine

Emmys

48 Most sensible 52 Snoops (around) 55 Car sticker no. 56 Postings at an airline gate, for short

58 Vanna’s partner 60 __ Jima

61 Quick flight