Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Light in a socket 5 Hunt for bargains 9 Tick off
13 Enjoyed
immensely 15 Smooth engine
sound
16 Love, in Lima 17 Gibberish 19 Passed-down
stories
20 Support for a side
plank exercise 21 Country singer
McGraw 22 Finished, as a
deck
24 David Muir and
Lester Holt 27 “Thor” actor Idris 28 “Just as I
thought!”
29 Tax evader’s
comeuppance 33 Very beginning 36 Like strung guitar
strings
37 “If u ask me ... ” 38 Sought-after
celeb 40 Springsteen’s __
Band
43 Edge of a glass 44 “I claim that!” 46 Perform better
than
47 One who scoffs
at Bud, perhaps 50 Dominate in
competition 51 Dough for
spanakopita 52 Attacks
56 Kind of salad named for a NYC hotel
59 Make a dent in 60 Mister, in
Mumbai 62 Grammy winner
India.__ 63 Overtime round, e.g . ... and what a black square acts as for the circled words?
66 Crystal ball gazer 67 Landfill
emanation 68 Coffee or tea 69 “No thanks” 70 Nada
71 Draws to a close
DOWN
1 Ole Miss rival 2 180-degree
reversal
3 “I wanna try!” 4 Fella
5 Ocean froth 6 Smooth engine
sound
7 Planets, in
poems
8 Formal
objections
9 Ritzy California
beach city
10 “No dessert for
me today” 11 Warning after a
slice
12 Mister Rogers 14 Random criticism 18 Iwo __ 23 Fashioned after 25 Friendly dog
greetings 26 Actress Vardalos 30 Regrets
31 Used WhatsApp,
say
32 Dog in Oz 33 Clothing 34 Fashion designer
Saab
35 “The years just
zip by!”
36 The Chicks or
ZZ Top
39 Ralph Kramden’s
pal
41 Dwarfed, with
“over”
42 Ski resort
trails
45 “Killing Eve”
channel
48 Lyft patrons 49 __-mo videos 50 Actor Epps
53 Blending of one hue to the next, from the French for “shaded” 54 Invite to enter 55 Get big on Twitter 56 Stinging insect 57 Farmland measure 58 Classic dog name 61 Ticks off
64 Very long stretch 65 “What __ you
looking at?”