Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Mail in 6 Hair-raising
experiences? 11 Bare-bones
sleeper
14 Egypt’s Mubarak 15 Font that’s a homophone for a mermaid
16 Color
17 *Closest to the rail, at Churchill Downs
19 Mitch
McConnell’s org. 20 Balance sheet
category
21 “Love Story”
author Segal 23 The Big Easy,
locally
26 Works
27 Get one’s
bearings 28 Refines, as ore 30 Loads
31 “Dandy for your teeth” old toothpaste 32 Guffaw 35 Ambulance letters 36 Comment about routine work
... and hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues 38 Wee, in Dundee 39 Apply gently 40 Novgorod nos 41 Financial news
channel
42 Judge of
baseball, for one 44 Pakistani
metropolis 46 Jolson classic 48 Dispensed (with) 49 Privilege of playing
first, in golf
50 Kid’s retort 52 Latin 101 verb 53 *It may be used
with a grunt or two 58 Network soliciting
donors
59 Spry
60 Stubborn 61 Atlanta-toCharleston dir. 62 Evaluated 63 Everly Brothers
song sleepyhead
DOWN
1 Pi follower
2 Ages and ages 3 Casper winter
hrs.
4 Consumes
eagerly 5 Connects
logically 6 See-through
sheets
7 Once, old-style 8 Social reformer
Jacob
9 Magazine with “The Lighter Side of...” features 10 Where apnea might be diagnosed 11 *Suzanne Somers’ “Three’s Company” role 12 Prevention unit 13 Many Microsoft
employees
18 “It __ fair!”
22 Tire track 23 Famous 24 Bakery draw 25 *Barely triumphs 26 Napa prefix 28 Overflow 29 Some mil. brass 31 “Understood”
33 Eclipse shadow 34 Country singer Musgraves with six Grammys 36 Cochlea site 37 Child
41 Loire Valley sight 43 2021, por
ejemplo
44 __ cod: Pacific
Coast catch 45 “Totes __!”: really
cute
46 Fitness
magazine 47 Development
sites
48 Like morning
grass 50 Somewhat 51 Part
54 JFK alternative 55 Pacino and
Capone
56 Water __ 57 Hurricane center