Daily Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Drains of strength 5 Hoops player 10 Immortal Middle-earth

dweller

13 Suffix with switch 14 Gladiator’s realm 15 Henry __, who had six

marriages

17 Gets an A on, as a test 18 Bench __: exercise

19 Red sky at morning, to a

sailor

20 Long. crosser 21 Darjeeling and oolong 22 Fire stirrers

24 Writer Wharton 26 “Indubitably!”

28 Hawk’s nest

29 Shrinks back

31 Like a student arriving ten minutes after the bell, as opposed to five 33 “Golly!”

34 Greek cross

35 Old PC component 36 Midmorning work timeout, and a hint to this puzzle’s circles

40 Santa __ winds 42 Convert (hide) into

leather

43 Dada pioneer Jean 44 Roasted holiday birds 47 Clickbait links, e.g. 51 Movie critic, when giving

stars

52 As well

54 Religious belief 55 Hider’s locationrevealing words 57 Japanese wrestling 59 Half a Latin dance 60 Put __ on: limit 61 Fashion designer Emilio 63 Christmas carol

64 Toy building block

65 Sir __ Newton 66 Word-of-mouth 67 Bear’s shelter

68 Chili con __

69 Moistens

DOWN

1 Putty, for example 2 Video game area 3 Written in verse

4 Sailor’s “Help!”

5 Flowing garb for Batman 6 Orderly arrangements 7 Sextet after the golden

rings

8 USN rank

9 Abrasive tool

10 Brought to mind

11 Funny five-line verse 12 More passionate 16 Newspaper leaflet, say 21 Porch pirate, for one 23 Rowboat mover

25 Like takeout food 27 Wild guess 30 Southpaw 32 Surrounding glows 34 Decalogue number 36 Rome’s Punic Wars foe 37 Toward sunrise

38 Muse of poetry 39 Church recess

40 On __ basis: for testing

purposes 41 Characterized by subtle

distinctions 45 Not turn off

46 Be wrong

47 Bird on a Froot Loops

box

48 “Sing another one!” 49 Warm up, as leftovers 50 Hems and haws 53 Grouchy Muppet 56 Large-scale tale 58 Computer devices bearing little resemblance to their real-life namesakes 62 Can. neighbor

63 “It’s __ or never”