Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Striped pet
6 “__ chic!”
10 Gear tooth 13 Sprightly
14 Bridge
predecessor 15 Back on a ship 16 *Research without
direct application 18 Spending power,
for short
19 “No Ordinary
Love” singer 20 Eleven digits? 21 Treadmill setting 23 *Czechoslovakian
movement of 1968 27 Yuletide song 28 33-Across years 29 Paper or plastic 30 Father of the
Muses
33 Score half 34 *Helpline offering 38 “I see,” at sea 39 Noodle nugget 40 “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s __”: Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema 41 Policy of some
restaurants
44 “An Caighdeán
Oifigiúil” language 45 *Commerce
imbalance 49 Recycle bin, e.g. 50 Shades 51 Becomes
compost 55 “Gross!”
56 *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? 59 Baseball great
Ripken
60 Comes up against 61 Isaac of “Moon
Knight”
62 U-turn from WSW 63 Response heard during a pool game
64 Pier
DOWN
1 Spigots
2 Río flower
3 __ of paradise 4 Cover up, in a
way
5 [Nod]
By Joe Deeney
6 Org. with 27
member states 7 Salon procedure 8 Key to going
back?
9 Grassy expanse 10 Word on an Italian menu that means “hunter” 11 Those at fault 12 Classic Pontiac
muscle car 14 Annex 17 Anthracite or
lignite
22 __ de Triomphe 24 Nevada city about 100 miles from Burning Man 25 The Aztecs of the NCAA’s Mountain West Conf. 26 Bloke
27 Center of a 3-4
football defense 29 Spanish dialect in
the Big Apple 30 Character debuted by Zadie Smith?
31 Poetic preposition 32 Can. neighbor 34 “You __ be
serious”
35 Leave out
36 Home of many Quechua speakers 37 Means to an end? 42 Final words of an
engagement 43 Top removed before dashing off? 44 Conditional programming word
46 Mover’s rental
47 Cost
48 Identifies (as) 52 Largest member of the dolphin family
53 Leader in the
Bulgarian Empire 54 Feudal laborer 55 Diamonds, in
slang
57 “Last Week
Tonight” network 58 “Bam!” kin