Today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Big drink of water 5 Choice

9 Pesky crawler 14 Like most eggs 15 Making people

wait, maybe 16 Wolf pack leader 17 Self-named 2000s sitcom set in Texas 18 Somewhat 19 Landlocked Asian

country 20 Good-looking 23 Awesome, in slang 24 Chinese toy 25 Works a wedding 27 Prince in a can? 30 Classic film involving a split personality 32 Chow __

33 Wind heard in Dion’s “Abraham, Martin and John” 35 “The Metamorphosis” author

38 Bag or ball leadin

39 Vegas loser, often 41 Early

11th-century year 42 Couldn’t say no 44 Help to withdraw 45 Many a gospel

song 46 Run-scoring out 48 Lao-tzu follower 50 “Peer Gynt Suite”

dancer

52 Put on 53 Rainbow mnemonic surname 54 Payback phrase altered to provide a hint to solving four other puzzle answers 60 Jennyanydots’

creator

62 Farm house 63 “The Favourite”

actress Stone 64 The “A” in CDA,

to an Idahoan 65 Automaker Ferrari 66 Verbal quirks, like

“y’know” 67 Coolidge’s VP 68 Texter’s sign-off 69 “Right now!”

DOWN

1 2000 presidential

runner-up 2 Pigmented eye

layer

3 Some yellow dogs 4 New parent’s

purchase

5 Mr. Krabs’

nemesis

6 Dunkin’ Donuts

offering

7 U.S. territory until

1896

8 Ancient Persian 9 Pillages

10 Cry after un gol 11 Affectionate idiom that originally referred to a pupil 12 Committee leader 13 Stops

21 Above, to a bard 22 Like some stares 26 Lil Wayne’s

“__ Carter III” 27 Asian nurse 28 Princess from

Alderaan 29 Perch

perspective

30 Stir

31 “I __ red door and I want it painted black”: Stones

34 Cry buckets 36 Basinger and

Cattrall

37 “If it __ broke ...” 39 Ancient dialogues

subject 40 Worldwide anticrime group 43 Ankle pic 45 Charlotte NBA

team 47 Autograph

seeker

49 Duracell size 50 Draw __ on:

aim at

51 Wafer brand 52 Light-headed 55 Very cool rapper? 56 Type of type 57 Radiate

58 Disco hit with arm

motions 59 Towards sunrise 61 Phone button

with no letters