THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Twinings product
6 Spare tire
10 Market aggressively
14 Immortal Detroit sportscaster Harwell
15 Yarn
16 Wild about
17 One of 26 in the Maldives
18 *Maximum number of jousters allowed in a Ren faire tournament?
20 Not touch
21 Entomologist’s tool
22 Old enough
23 Honker in old comedy films
25 Unsubstantial
26 “Silent All These Years” singer Tori
28 Radiate
31 Minus
32 Put down
34 Step on it
36 United
37 *One who really, really knows how to spin a yarn?
39 Chic retreat
42 “Uh-oh. Better get ... ”collision repair company
43 Showed surprise
45 Rum-soaked cake
48 High-scoring club?
50 Suds
51 Urgent order
53 Fiber-__ cable
55 Sportscast embellishment
56 Trifle
58 Poppy product
61 *Excelled at filling in historical timelines?
63 Wolfgang Puck chain
64 Trillion: Pref.
65 It’s often steamed
66 What Ma knows well
67 Baking soda target
68 Word of woe
69 “The Kominsky Method” co-star
DOWN
1 Toll
2 Deco master
3 *Tree trunk?
4 Primer type
5 Sushi bar
supplier
6 Ky. army post
7 Country __
8 Touched down
9 Ask to be excused, with “off”
10 Hidden danger
11 Set free
12 Puts on
13 Ones who never lose faith
19 Manual weed whacker
24 George Eliot, e.g.
25 Supplemental health insurance
26 Brouhaha
27 “Of Mice and __”
29 Kate on the cover of Vanity Fair’s 100th anniversary issue
30 Wet blanket
33 Dossier letters
35 __ discount
38 Bar staple
39 Total alternative ... and a feature of the answers to starred clues?
40 Wasabi-coated snack
41 Recipe verb
42 Thoroughbred grandfather of Seabiscuit
44 Amazon, for one
45 __ basics
46 Made up (for)
47 Short jacket
49 Drunks
52 Shout
54 Teatro Costanzi premiere of 1900
56 Yacht outing
57 Whale also called
a blackfish
59 Not-cute fruit
60 Night light
62 Stretch often named for a music genre