Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Sketch show with a musical guest, familiarly
4 Uncovers
9 Dollop
13 Secure (to)
14 South Pacific island
15 Bert who played
the Cowardly Lion
16 Star-spangled garb for July 4th
19 Relay race rods
20 Paint shade
21 Not even halfbaked
22 “Catch you later”
26 Taxi prices
28 Ref. work favoring “favour”
29 Sneaker pattern
30 “Best. Day. __!”
31 Tax return fig.
32 Pharmaceutical giant __ Lilly
33 Last section of the 28-Across
34 Activity with Skip and Wild Draw Four cards
36 Round vegetable
39 Goal
40 Pres. after FDR
41 Street
42 Wishing one hadn’t
45 Poor grade
46 Observes Ramadan, say
47 Focus of many a murder podcast
50 Diagnostic scan, briefly
51 Illegal turn, maybe
52 Inexact lunch hour
55 Secret-teller’s intro, and an apt title for this puzzle
59 Cut with a beam
60 “Night” author Elie
61 Group’s adjective
62 North Carolina university town
63 Attach, as a patch
64 Greenpeace, for one
DOWN
1 Short pencil 2 Singer Simone 3 Gave a good
talking-to
4 Low choir voices 5 “With you now”
6 Outer edge
7 Engraved with acid
8 __ City, Iowa
9 Sandwich known by its initials
10 Avant-garde violinist and artist Anderson
11 “Yowza”
12 Prepared, as coffee
14 Outdoor wedding shelters
17 “Table for one” type
18 Put down roots
23 Company emblem
24 Tried to speak horse
25 __-state area
26 Brimless hat
27 “__ Maria”
31 Plus
32 Pro in an ambulance
34 Use Goo Gone, e.g.
35 “Hang on __!”
36 Greek god of the sea
37 Consume
38 Targeted social media posts
39 Brian of Roxy Music
41 Instant noodles option
42 Sound of distant thunder
43 Preposterous
44 Rather formal “Can this be true?”
45 Judy Blume novel about a girl with scoliosis
46 “And that’s __”
48 Opinions
49 Cathedral city on the Seine
53 Self-satisfied
54 Medal recipient
56 “The Mandalorian” actress Ming-Na __
57 Evergreen tree with pliable wood
58 Spanish bear