Today’s crossword
8/12/21
ACROSS
1 Spot for honored
guests 5 AutoZone rival 9 Long-necked
African mammal 14 1 for H, e.g. 15 Help flee a collar 16 One finalizing a
return, perhaps 17 Plane storage
area
19 Knighted golf
analyst
20 Itzcoatl, for one 21 Kansas __ 23 Hardly flushed 24 Alpine resort
features 28 Kleptomaniacal
toon monkey 31 Paper gauge 32 Migraine
symptoms 33 Excludes
35 Pivot around 38 “This I __ see” 40 Overnight bag item ... and what’s literally hidden in 17-, 24-. 51- and 63-Across 43 Arabian
Peninsula capital 44 Linguist Chomsky 45 Radio button 46 Seriously wounds 48 Easy mark 50 “Treasure Island”
monogram
51 St. Petersburg’s Vaganova Academy, e.g. 55 Name from the French for “beloved”
56 Zip
57 Bounded 61 Musical buzzer 63 Kyra Sedgwick
TV title role 66 Abrasive mineral 67 Quick correction 68 Diamond figure 69 Carpentry
grooves
70 Quiet “Yo”
71 One way to go
DOWN 1 __ mining 2 The whole shebang 3 How some close NFL games are won
4 Pump bottoms 5 “Not feelin’ it” 6 The Great Emancipator, familiarly 7 Frequent De Niro
co-star
8 Tall story? 9 “Scoot along,
now”
10 Soul seller 11 Come rain or
come shine 12 C&W strings 13 Clubs seen near
woods
18 Sputnik letters 22 Hip-hop article 25 More
26 Guitar string
option
27 Gentle gaits 28 Beginner’s
lesson
29 Nassau rum
drink
30 Like raw 1-Down 34 Gourmet
gastropod 36 Storied abduction
craft
37 Internet funding 39 Big favors 41 Handhelds that debuted in 1989 42 Texter’s “Too
funny!” 47 Orchestra sect. 49 Interview
51 __ beans 52 Absstrengthening exercise
53 Attorney Roy and sports anchor Linda 54 Spaghetti Western director Sergio
58 K2 locale
59 Pilot and others 60 Hoops long
shot
62 Acapulco gold 64 News VIPs 65 Barracks unit