Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Bank security
device, briefly 5 Aim high 10 Harvest
14 “Fancy meeting
you here!”
15 Vital vessel 16 Semi bar 17 Gardener’s buy 18 Shoulder warmer 19 Table parts 20 Region on the
South China Sea 22 Members with
unflinching loyalty 24 Landlord’s sign 26 __ Ellen, J.R.’s
wife on “Dallas” 27 Maximum
28 HHS agency 29 Exchange need 32 12-Down output 33 “No problem!” 35 ER skill practiced
on a doll 36 Pet-adoption ads,
briefly
38 Part of MB 39 Couldn’t refuse 41 Text recipient 44 Tattoo parlor
supplies 46 Pussy-cat’s
partner, in verse 47 One with many
limbs
48 Facebook
barrage, at times 50 Unconscious 53 “Srsly?!” 54 Media-monitoring
org.
55 “Up First” network 56 Flu fighter 58 Emotionally break
down
62 “__ while they’re
hot!”
64 Bicolor cookie 65 Dinnertime draws 67 Italian tower city 68 End of the line 69 Burning again 70 Column in math 71 Risk it
72 Walk heavily 73 Pursue
DOWN
1 Micro- ending 2 Calorie counter’s
break 3 “It’s safe to come
out”
4 Author Gore 5 Fun time, in
slang
6 Fireworks cries 7 Frank’s cousin 8 Formal
confession 9 Predictors of most 20th-century U.S. presidential elections 10 Nadal’s
nickname 11 Workout suggested by the circled letters and their orientation
12 Pub dispenser 13 Pampering spot
for cats and dogs 21 Above, in poems 23 Dampens 25 User’s rescuer 28 Winter mo. 30 Bookkeeping
pro
31 Triage MD 34 Craving 37 Pretense that’s
put on
40 28-Down
number
42 “I wanna look!” 43 Thanksgiving
dinner choice 45 Hawaii’s __
Coast
48 Pay for on one’s
own 49 Georgetown
Univ. locale 51 Wall Street
regular
52 Ph.D., e.g. 57 Targets for
towers 59 Mythology 60 Caramelcentered treat 61 Request at the
barbershop 63 Render indistinct,
as an odor 66 Longtime NASCAR sponsor