Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Concerning 6 Letters replacing
a list
9 Afternoon snooze 12 Nighttime party 14 Soccer tiebreaker, perhaps 17 County on the
English Channel 18 Canyon namesake of dry California winds 19 Tree with elastic
wood
20 *Matches with
known outcomes 22 Hi-__ TV
23 What “X” may
mean
24 Music center? 25 Dennis the
Menace, for one 28 Beloved 30 Monk’s title 33 Cultural setting 36 Black and blue? 39 H or O, in H2O 41 Contrasting
ornaments 42 Roald Dahl title
heroine 43 Submitted, as a
manuscript 44 Kvetching
sounds 45 Weakens
48 Give voice to 49 __ Lingus 51 Partner in a 2020 peace agreement with Isr.
53 Quite a ways
away
56 *Music group’s lead violinist, casually
61 Anger 62 Imagining 63 Photo taken
backwards? 65 Marine Corps motto, briefly, and a hint to the answers to starred clues 66 Thrills
67 General on a
menu 68 Fair-hiring letters 69 Flair
DOWN
1 Syrian leader 2 W.C. Fields
persona 3 *Fast-food alternatives to burgers
4 RN workplaces 5 Sailing danger 6 Ancient mystic 7 Jazz trumpeter
Jones
8 Meeting group 9 Biblical boater 10 Bee, to Opie 11 School orgs. 13 Leave
15 Name seen on one’s way to the penthouse? 16 License plates 21 Marked on a
ballot
26 “La Bohème”
role
27 Banana covering 29 Hunk’s pride 30 *Like half a
chance 31 APR-reducing
loan
32 Pt. of AAA 33 Office notice
34 “Now __ me
down to sleep ... ” 35 Being severely
criticized 37 Numbered rds. 38 Novelist Jaffe 40 Diner check 46 Aussie parrot,
briefly
47 Mournful 49 33-Down
demand, perhaps
50 Luncheon end? 52 “... or __!” 54 Cartoon mermaid 55 Actress
Witherspoon 56 Punch deliverer 57 March time 58 San __: Italian
resort
59 Recon target 60 Sniggler’s catch 64 Map line: Abbr.