The Union Democrat

THE DAILY CROSSWORD

- Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis for the Los Angeles Times

ACROSS

1 Apply softly

4 Indy 500 leader 11 About 40 gallons of it usually makes a gallon of syrup

14 GPS calculatio­n 15 Mollusk with a

nacreous shell 16 Gp. for moms

and dads 17 Particles from far,

far away 20 Burger topping 21 23andme

subject

22 Lena Dunham

TV show

23 Dog topping

25 To wit 26 Wind-driven

clouds 28 Hereditary unit 29 Riddle end,

maybe

32 2001 NBA MVP

Allen

36 Goal

37 Student, ideally 39 Runner Down

Under

40 Zoom alternativ­e 42 Race part

43 Over

45 Brazilian soccer

great 46 Responds to a phone solicitati­on, perhaps 48 Improvs, e.g. 49 Eye-bending

genre

51 Fiennes of “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

53 Drops off before

midday?

55 Easy throw 56 “Later”

57 Words With

Friends, for one 60 Post-teaching title

for some

62 Latvia neighbor 64 Fluorescen­t

element?

65 Like many a

wedding planner 66 “It’s just a flesh

wound”

67 Repair crew with

tiles

DOWN

1 Interior designer’s

specialty

2 Make reparation­s 3 Margherita pizza

herb

4 It tops out at ten

in a doctor’s office 5 “Mixed-ish” airer 6 Calling or playing

follower

7 Stylish vigor 8 Musical symbol resembling a set of crosshairs 9 Young Darth 10 When the Cold

War ended 11 Pinnacle of

religion?

12 Coral island 13 Violet hybrid 18 Like eyes starting

to tear up 19 Dingy kitchen

item?

24 “A Treatise of Human Nature” author 25 Campbell of

“Scream” films 27 Ease up 28 Spiced brew 29 Paper-nest builder 30 Backpack, e.g.

31 1926 Pulitzer

winning poet 33 Dramatic shift ... or what’s literally found in each set of circles? 34 Neglect to

mention 35 Sisters in the 2017 film “The Little Hours” 38 Excite, with “up” 41 Exuberance

44 Gender __ 46 Undergroun­d

recess 47 Declines

50 Flared dress style 52 Released 53 Arnaz of early TV 54 Painter Nolde 58 Place to drop a

line

59 Paw parts 61 1860s gray 63 Klutz

 ?? By August Miller ?? 11/18/21
By August Miller 11/18/21

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