Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Make small
adjustments to
6 Palindromic title
11 “¡Dios __!”
14 Fictional
chocolatier Wonka
15 Sports complex
16 Series finale, e.g.
17 Tied with a
scrunchie, maybe
19 Director DuVernay
20 Italian ice cream
21 Most coll.
applicants
22 Thing
23 Food __: lethargy
after a big meal
25 Mosaic tile
27 Stargazer’s bear
30 No longer on deck
32 Election night backdrop for Steve Kornacki
33 Whispery video
genre, for short
34 “Fiddlesticks!”
35 Big gulps
37 Word before salt
or snail
39 “Know what __?”
42 Pre-calc math
class
44 YouTube diary
46 Irish actor
Stephen
47 Taking time off
50 Car sticker amt.
51 [shrug emoji]
52 Turner known as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”
54 Wheel turner
55 Donne couplet?
57 Forced from
power
61 “The Real World”
airer
62 Classic sunshine pop hit single with hot-air-balloon imagery, and what 17-, 30-, and 47-Across literally are
64 Gobbled up
65 Draped silk
dresses
66 Mitt
67 Letters of distress
68 Utopias
69 Made less
onerous
DOWN
1 Small branch
2 Sonoma County
product
3 Ben Gurion-based airline
4 South American
kin of a camel
5 Japanese city with
many shrines
6 Star Wars Day
month
7 Review-heavy newspaper section
8 Scarcity
9 Ouzo flavoring
10 “Bad” prefix
11 Carnivores
12 Turn upside down
13 Whoopi’s Oscarwinning role in “Ghost”
18 Spanish phrase equivalent to “¡Basta!”
22 Five Pillars faith
24 Devices called “cashpoints” in the U.K.
26 Small branch
27 Sounds of
hesitation
28 Uncooked
29 Trumpet parts that need to be drained
31 Fountain near Rome’s Spanish Steps
33 Nike rival
36 Storm drain cover
38 Oodles
40 __ Lingus
41 Rest in a sleep pod
43 Xbox controller, for one
45 Awesome Blossom vegetable
47 2000s first family
48 Alongside of
49 Academic job security
50 Indian spice mix
53 Gentle reminder
56 Rotate
58 Low poker pair
59 Roof trim
60 Hid one’s true colors, perhaps
62 “It’s just no __!”
63 Mule kin