Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Shipwreck signal 4 Stan of Marvel
Comics
7 Catch in a trap 12 Time period 13 Off-roader’s
purchase, for short 14 Quest for intel 15 *Instant in which emotional decisions are made 18 Middle-earth
menace 19 Female surfer 20 Times to
remember
21 Got a lift, in a way 23 Popular mints 25 Tea container 27 Gradually come
to be
31 Wander about 33 Pasture
35 Where one may be taken to be reprimanded 36 Verb in a recipe 37 Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be?
40 Tennis court
divider
41 Family gathering
attendee 43 Pacific Coast st. 44 Loch with a
legend
45 Ties to a post 48 Rene of “Get
Shorty”
50 Show flexibility 52 Dampen, as
sound
55 Help in a bad
way?
58 Coral named for
its shape 60 Wheaton who played himself on “The Big Bang Theory” 61 *Defeat soundly 64 More despicable 65 Talk trash to 66 Cork’s country 67 Cowboy singer
Gene
68 Uneaten morsel 69 Ship in Genesis
DOWN
1 *Flaky type 2 Cheerios grain 3 Came down in
flakes 4 Plastering strip 5 Value system 6 Tied, as a score 7 “Seats all taken”
sign
8 Archrivals
9 Asian laptop
brand
10 Barrett of gossip 11 Tolkien tree race 12 Macedonian
neighbor 15 MLB’s Astros, on
scoreboards 16 “Fiddle-__!” 17 Trifling 22 Battering __ 24 Spot on the tube 26 Vote of support 28 *Employment
field
29 Keats works 30 Vets’ concerns 31 Rave’s partner 32 Dog in the
comics 34 Brouhaha 37 Owner’s
document 38 Blunder
39 Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. __
42 Idle talk 44 Bounced-check
letters 46 Reckless 47 Racer’s bathing
suit
49 Naturally brewed
beverage 51 Animal with a
snout
53 Vitality
54 Santa helper 55 Palindromic pop
group
56 Steady guy 57 Toward
sunrise 59 Speedy
62 “Do or do not. There is no __”: Yoda
63 Title for Paul or
Ringo