The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)

Crossword Edited by Will Shortz

- PUZZLE BY ALINA ABIDI

ACROSS

Breaded and

1 topped with tomato sauce and mozzarella, for short “Holy mackerel!” 5

Instrument

9 played by indie rock’s Sufjan Stevens Black-and-white 13 item in a sleeve V.I.P. on base

14

Winter bugs

15

With 26-Across, 16 game that uses a blindfold

Part of the food 18 pyramid Gardening tool 19

Fruit in the

20

William Carlos Williams poem “This Is Just to Say” Edward

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Snowden’s former employer, in brief Black History Mo. 23

See 16-Across 26

“Why?”

29

Puts up

31

Bird that had no 32 natural predators until humans arrived

Tick (off)

33

Babe Zaharias 35 was the first woman to compete on its tour, in brief Item exchanged 36 in a so-called “yankee swap” John Lewis was 41 born here: Abbr. Org. that

42 oversees O.T.C.s Campaign

43 expense

Get situated

45

Pacify

48

Frequent reveler, 50 or a hint to 16-/26- and 36-Across

Hit the slopes

53

“___ be my

54

pleasure”

Lots

55

Hearty laugh

56

Tidy

58

Cartoonist

60 suggested by this puzzle’s theme Brand in the ice 65 cream aisle Aches (for)

66

Words after a

67 gasp

Its underside

68 might be covered in gum

The first cloned mammals Yarn 69 70

DadDOWN

1

“Midsommar”

2 director Aster ___ faire

3

(historical re-enactment event, for short) Fly-by-night type? 4

Fuel up, in a way 5

Visual in an

6 annual report Nimble

7

Hornswoggl­e

8

Toggle option

9

Artist’s starting 10 place Get-go

11

Guest ___, what 12

The New York Times calls op-eds

What an asterisk 14 might suggest Centaur’s foot

17

Transform

21

Repeated string 23 in a chain letter subject line

Website with

24 articles like “10 Surprising Ways to Use Mayonnaise Around Your Home” Things best kept 25 under one’s hat? Data structure 27 with a root node Undo

28

Half of a halfbathro­om 30 Tiny toymaker 34

Tucker who had 37 her first hit in 1972 and won her first Grammys in 2020 Cheese used in 38

Babybels Fruits whose

39 seeds can act as a substitute for black peppercorn­s Something to do 40

Latin gods

44

Shared one’s

45 views

For all ages, as a 46

video game

Tell

47

Also

49

At all, in dialect 51

Combined

52

Pretzel, basically 57

Shaming syllable 59

Drug dosages: 61

Abbr.

Light bulb

62 moment sound Show with

63 the recurring character Target Lady, in brief “Piggy”

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