Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Maxims
5 Indian dignitaries 11 Pizzeria order 14 Make bootees,
say
15 Childish response 16 Lenient
17 *“We’ll never
understand” 19 Sports rep 20 Familia members 21 __ Palmas: Canary Islands port
22 Ranch unit
23 Not just a few 25 *Color named for
a fruit
27 Public face
29 Not yet firm 30 D’backs, in box
scores
31 Residue in a
charcoal grill 33 Pt. of many long
weekends 34 *Large bovine of
American folklore 40 Slithery swimmer 41 Loaf that may contain caraway seeds
42 Rival
44 Like a designated
driver
47 Weepy 50 *Political satirist who wrote “Holidays in Hell” 54 “Phooey!” 55 Umbrella spokes 56 __ chi: martial art 57 Ten, for openers 58 Recede
59 Louisa May Alcott classic whose main characters are hidden in the answers to the starred clues 63 Wonderment 64 Lipton drink 65 High coif
66 Teller of corny jokes, stereotypically 67 Not strict with 68 Discreet
summons
DOWN
1 Compete in the Super G, e.g. 2 Colony critter 3 Climbing vine with purple flowers 4 Connecting
flights
5 Tampa Bay
baseballers 6 Horace’s
“__ Poetica” 7 “Fist of Legend”
action star 8 Starting squad 9 Neigh-sayer 10 __ latte: dairyfree order 11 Director’s call 12 “So true!” 13 Magnitude 18 Cinco de __ 22 Golfer Palmer,
informally 23 Org. with a Climate Change section on its website
24 Sink or swim 25 Mascara target 26 Hindu spiritual
adviser
28 The older of baseball’s two leagues: Abbr. 32 Possessive
pronoun 33 Vamoose
35 Pub round 36 Architect Saarinen 37 Data unit 38 Freeway exits 39 Cross off 43 Overhead trains 44 Cream cheese,
e.g. 45 Algonquian
language
46 Rose and fell on
the waves 48 Over again 49 Get back
51 City near
Syracuse 52 Hotel postings 53 Poker pot 57 Leader with an
.edu address 59 Fabrication 60 Name of 13
popes 61 Masthead VIPs 62 “__ too shabby!”