Today's crossword

ACROSS

1 Lean

5 Comedian profiled in “Last Man Standing” 9 Member-owned

shop

13 “Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself” org. 14 Abbr. on an

ESPN ticker 15 Home country of Olympian Pita Taufatofua 16 Low-alcohol

brews 18 Something to

gain?

19 Random comments online?

21 TV planet on which people age backward 22 “Make sense?” 23 Sydney’s st. 26 Was more than

superficial

28 Red choice 31 “Sorry, can’t

make it”

35 “We’ll Meet Again”

singer Lynn 36 Feed

37 Before, previously 38 Burton of “Reading Rainbow” 39 Profess

40 Finally learns

about

42 Kind of filler 44 Maroon 5’s “__

Will Be Loved” 45 Service call? 46 Blue choice 49 Many times o’er 51 Unnamed

informant 57 Treats, as a

winter road 58 Catering

production? 59 Healing plants 60 “Make sense?” 61 Some leafcutters 62 Catherine who is one of the six in Broadway’s “Six” 63 Fed. IDs 64 Blue-bottled

vodka

By Annemarie Brethauer & Katie Hale

DOWN

1 Lean

2 Brand with Blue Lemonade and Blue Vanilla flavors

3 “You __ me!” 4 Lead-in for jet or

prop

5 Prepare to scare,

with “on”

6 Big name in gaming monitors

7 “Jude the

Obscure” author 8 Role for

Sudeikis

9 Saves

10 Bona fide 11 Scary figure 12 Picks up a bill, or

hands a bill 15 Tantalize 17 Frame

20 Some British

parents 23 Battery

acronym

24 Show one’s face,

maybe 25 Medium also known as aquarelle

27 Jane Lynch

series

29 Give a skilled

delivery 30 Allegorical cards 32 Ben or Jerry,

notably 33 25-Down, e.g. 34 Wit’s end?

38 Try to protect, in

a way

40 T. Rex rock style 41 “Is that so?”

43 Vast chasm 47 Rises into view 48 Warthog pair 50 Low winds 51 Urgent letters 52 Character voiced by Moira Kelly and Beyoncé 53 Read quickly 54 Putrid

55 Lincoln or

Jackson

56 Crafts site