Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Evidence of fire 6 Phone call enders 10 Recedes to the
sea
14 Piglike rhino
relative
15 Move like The
Blob
16 Strong wind 17 “__ you clever!” 18 Folklore meanie 19 Stan on the sax 20 Protection for extremities during slicing and dicing 23 Long-standing
dispute
24 Go public with 25 Brewery kilns 29 Old-style timepieces attached to vests 33 GI chow
34 Many a retired
racehorse
35 The “O” in OAS:
Abbr.
36 Least distant 40 Coming into being 42 Rude dude 43 Travel document 45 Tropical
“constrictor” 46 15-season CBS drama about the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit 50 Become frantic 51 Meadowland 52 Uses a shovel 55 Looks after, as suggested by the last word of 20-, 29- and 46-Across
59 “The Thin Man”
dog
62 Lacrosse targets 63 Specialized vocab 64 Null and __ 65 Like much
testimony
66 Word with circle
or city
67 Kibbles ’n Bits
competitor 68 Agile
69 Colorful marble
DOWN
1 Employee group 2 Curie with two Nobels 3 Speak candidly 4 Regal realms 5 Art Deco master 6 __-woogie 7 Dannon
products
8 Pound who was a friend of T.S. Eliot
9 Tea leaves
reader 10 Spider’s hatching
pouch
11 Main squeeze, in
slang
12 Lunch menu
letters
13 Utters, in slang 21 Earns lots of, as
dough
22 Spoils, as a
grandchild 26 Clog or loafer 27 Fork-tailed
shorebird 28 Army NCO 30 Narrow opening
in a cliff
31 Take the title 32 High-spirited
horse
36 Sputnik letters 37 “__ Croft: Tomb
Raider”
38 Top Norse god 39 Flight safety
org.
41 Toting clubs for a
golfer
44 MLB’s Hank Aaron, e.g., in 21 seasons 47 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, with “The” 48 Pitifully small 49 “Burnt” crayon
color 53 “__ it, Rover!”:
“Fetch!”
54 Keep a mate
awake, perhaps 56 Grandson of
Adam
57 One in handcuffs,
for short
58 Kazan with an
honorary Oscar 59 Actress Gardner 60 Sun, in Sonora 61 Bit of advice