Today's crossword

ACROSS

1 Hint of color 6 Biblical tower site 11 Inquire

14 Play area? 15 Greek salad fruit 16 Sushi topper 17 Pride symbol 19 Texter’s “Hang on

a sec” 20 “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” director Lee 21 No-frills font 22 Wee bit 23 Arachnid relative that resembles a crustacean

27 Sex therapy

subject

29 Helpful supporter 30 Loads

31 Give in a little 33 Irritate 36 Functions perfectly, and what can be said about the starts of 17-, 23-, 46-, and 57-Across 40 Brief alarm? 41 Fake

42 Singer India.__ 43 Gargantuan 44 “The Country Girls” novelist Edna

46 Minty frozen treat at McDonald’s every March 51 School year

division 52 Swarms (with) 53 Noble __

56 With 11-Down, Michigan college town 57 Nutty-tasting

winter vegetable 60 TNT part 61 Sounds from

happy cats 62 Loosen, as a knot 63 Storm center 64 Borden

spokescow 65 Utopias

DOWN

1 Actress Reid 2 Setting of the graphic novel “Persepolis” 3 People next door 4 “Erin Burnett OutFront” channel 5 Knight’s tunic 6 “Ziggy Stardust”

singer David 7 Some Italian sports cars, for short

8 Star of HBO’s

“Barry”

9 Actress Longoria 10 Part of a race 11 See 56-Across 12 Kinda

13 Shish __ 18 Approximately 22 Slippery, as a

road

24 Barnyard sound 25 Actress

Kurylenko 26 Utility abbr. 27 Newton trio 28 “Am __ early?” 31 Dividing lines 32 Luau strings,

briefly 33 Diversify, in a

way

34 Ohio border lake 35 Marvel mutants who battle Magneto

37 Egg (on)

38 Macy’s red star,

for one 39 Literary “Listen!” 43 “I wonder ... ” 44 Units of

resistance 45 Language from

northern Spain 46 Utter

47 “Atlanta” actor

Brian Tyree __ 48 Golfer Palmer,

to fans

49 Beach volleyball Olympic gold medalist __ Walsh Jennings 50 Pick up

54 Spelling

clarification phrase 55 Wally Lamb’s “__

Come Undone” 57 Imitate 58 __-de-sac 59 German

conjunction