Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Conversations 6 Flows back 10 “Doctor Who”
channel
13 *Many an Iraqi
Muslim 15 Congeal
16 __ de Janeiro 17 Great new talent 18 *From the 50th
state
20 “Hold tight!” 22 Like at least six periodic table gases
23 *City buried by
Vesuvius’ eruption 26 Vital organ pair 28 Smoothie
superfruit 29 Partners’ legal
entity: Abbr. 31 “Deck the Halls”
contraction 32 Horses’ houses 34 Like Cheerios 36 Cigar remnants 39 Cunning 40 *Rolling to the
terminal 42 Meadow
43 Prof.’s aides 44 Dress named for
a letter
45 Red giant in the
night sky 47 Gobbled down 48 Oilers, on NHL
scoreboards 50 Drake or drone,
e.g.
51 Sully, as a
reputation 55 *Berra’s “No one goes there anymore. It’s too crowded,” e.g. 57 Borders on 58 Frightened, in
Shakespeare 60 *Asian mushroom 62 Prove false 66 Truck weight unit 67 “Bright” thought 68 “Yes, captain” ... and a phonetic hint to the answers to starred clues 69 Unit of work 70 Sell for
71 Snide
commentary
DOWN
1 1/6 fl. oz.
2 Spa user’s
reaction
3 Golf ball position 4 Bigwig 5 Department __ 6 “HELLO ...
(hello) ...,” e.g. 7 Shut out, in a
game
8 Arrow shooter 9 Table showing teams’ won-lost records 10 Under-the-table
money
11 Onion bagel
alternative
12 Ice cream holders 14 Texting alternative 19 Charged particles 21 Mississippi port 23 Blue Ribbon beer 24 City about 65 miles west of Daytona Beach 25 Two of them precede “quite contrary” 27 Fla.-to-Cal.
highway 30 Fictional mutiny
ship
33 Sports page datum 35 Many a
Woodstock T-shirt 36 Asia’s __
Mountains 37 Flippered
mammals 38 Group of
37-Down
41 Bar pints
46 Wee bit 47 Against 49 Polynesian
Disney princess 51 Ability to discern
quality
52 Find repugnant 53 Regretting 54 Cod cousins 56 Overcast colors,
in London
59 Tour de force 61 Brouhaha 63 Strong bond
rating
64 Norse god of war 65 “A mouse!”