Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 It’s happening
now 6 Controversial
reading 10 Circumstance
partner
14 Brain center associated with speech
16 ’60s pop singer
Sands
17 Borders of old,
e.g.
18 First name in jazz 19 Abbr. on an
invoice
20 Tech boss 21 Relating to the arrangement of atoms in space 23 Mealtime alert 26 Magic
competition? 27 Give rise to 28 Rap’s “Puffy”
Combs
29 Head of
Parliament? 30 ’40s-’50s
paranoia
32 Bud’s bud 33 Judge in stripes 36 Anago or unagi 37 “__ that been
done?”
39 2019 Uber
landmark, briefly 40 Brought under
control
43 Soup sometimes served with banh mi
44 Eastern brew 45 Bass-baritone
Simon
48 “Time to move
on”
50 Co-star of Cox
and Kudrow 52 “No worries” 53 Behave 54 Co-star of Ethan
in “Gattaca” 55 Without rocks 56 Mexican fare 60 “Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died” writer Bombeck
61 Latin American
fare
62 Enervates 63 Certain farm, or one of its residents 64 Pesto ingredient
DOWN
1 Arafat’s successor 2 Ads, e.g.
3 Pull from the ground, in Plymouth 4 Disgusted remark 5 Much of “Deck
the Halls”
6 “The Python
Years” diarist 7 Janis’ comics
mate
8 Casual brand 9 Milky Way cousin 10 Crony of Captain Bildad, in “Moby-Dick” 11 Construction sight 12 Quick getaway
for newlyweds 13 Hipster’s “Later” 15 Vote to support 22 “Between the World and Me” National Book Award winner Coates
24 Henry VIII’s sixth 25 Affirms 26 Author Zora __
Hurston 28 Director’s unit 31 Quartz watch
innovator 33 Rainforest
explorers’ aids 34 Transient things 35 Military training
site
38 Red stingers 41 Bald babies? 42 Most of a tooth 46 Liszt’s
“Paganini __” 47 Mogadishu native 49 Little bits 50 Needed a
massage
51 Like “m” or “n,”
phonetically 53 Org. co-founded
by Helen Keller 57 Surfer’s setting 58 Alley-oop pass 59 Actress Gardner