Today's crossword

ACROSS

1 Crown sparkler 6 Like the Mandarin and Thai languages 11 Surgery ctrs. 14 Spanish birthplace

of St. Teresa 15 Food flavoring 16 Conjunction that’s the “B” in the FANBOYS mnemonic 17 *Clue suspect

dressed in red 19 Commotion 20 4x4, briefly 21 Boston newspaper 22 Foreboding sign 23 Package

25 *The key to good

locks?

27 Poems of praise 29 Muscle twitch 30 Regarding

33 Civil rights icon

Parks

36 Tropical fruit

40 *“I confess! You

got me!”

43 Tennis star Naomi 44 Silicon Valley’s

__ Alto

45 Pond plant

46 “__ be the judge

of that” 48 Temptation 50 *Parakeet’s home 55 Elbows

59 Some nest eggs,

for short

60 Puts underground 62 Baseball official 63 __ Quixote 64 Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? 66 Ted Lasso

setting: Abbr. 67 Out of style 68 Painter’s stand 69 Night anticipating the Ball Drop, informally 70 Where most of “Moby-Dick” takes place 71 Romance novelist

Danielle

DOWN

1 Become clogged, as a printer

By Marin Wells & Andrew Kingsley

2 “Buenos Aires”

musical 3 Knowing better

now

4 Golfer Ernie known as “The Big Easy”

5 __ out: reacted

angrily

6 Russian autocrat 7 “Queen of All

Media” Winfrey 8 __ wafers 9 Nailed an exam 10 Net judge’s call 11 President who appointed two women to the Supreme Court 12 Less civil 13 Curling piece 18 Dip stick? 22 Happened 24 Popular group in

school

26 Latvia’s capital 28 Sudsy bar 30 Earlier 31 Dubious, slangily 32 Argentine aunt 34 Nine-digit ID

issuer 35 LGBTQ+

advocacy org. 37 Dating app info ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

38 “Peace” shape 39 Go on to say 41 Barber’s powder 42 Stinging insect 47 Rodent in a

maze

49 Raves (about) 50 President who declared Juneteenth a federal holiday 51 “The Twilight

Zone” specialty 9/4/23 9/4/23

52 “Home on the __” 53 Speculate 54 Wipe clean 56 False front 57 Quiz-show host 58 Say

“C-H-E-E-S-E”? 61 Self-assembly

furniture giant 64 Chemical in some plastics, briefly

65 “Dig in!”