Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Subject of the Caldecott Honor book “The Right Word”
6 Lines of praise
10 “The __ Tour”: record-setting 2023-24 concert series
14 Butterfly’s stage 15 Stroke of luck?
17 City between Bismarck and Minneapolis on I-94
18 __ store
19 Swiss cheese?
21 Camp site
22 Being of Jewish folklore
24 Unleavened flatbread
25 Band whose work is featured in the musical “Head Over Heels”
28 Go on and on
32 Cool kin
33 Relish
35 Cheek muscle, for short
36 Acrobat’s company
38 AQI monitor
39 Played again
40 Brown ermine
41 “__ Baby”: 2020 film set during a Jewish ritual
43 Soul provider
44 Shirley Jackson’s genre
46 Biological building block
48 Emotional wound
50 Assortment
51 Threat to some colonists
55 Seuss reptile
58 Barrier visited by tourists
60 Hawkeye missile
61 One who doesn’t like to just veg?
62 Two-terminal device
63 Trees with oval
leaves
64 Sub contractor?
65 Elusive Himalayans
DOWN
1 Jazz motif
2 Ilhan who was the first person to wear a hijab on the House floor
3 Remote target
4 Holiday concoction
5 Extremely tight
6 Omega, in physics
7 Bad lot
8 Bull in a product name
9 Salt, say
10 Theme that plays over the closing credits
11 Hitchcock’s first film in color
12 Soon, long ago
13 Third-qtr. month
16 Photogenic
20 Beneficiary of a Sonic boom?
23 Shifts
25 Refuse
26 Was compelled
27 Some campus returnees
29 Ragtime dance
30 Net income?
31 Nephric
34 Yogurt-based condiment served with 24-Across
37 Counter points?
42 Über
45 Souped-up junker
47 Nation known for temperance
49 “The Canterbury Tales” pilgrim
51 Peak
52 Time for some wrap parties
53 Zurich transport
54 Stagger
56 California wine town near Stockton
57 Short-horned bighorns
59 Calendar abbr.