THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Surprise with cheese and wine, perhaps 11 Craft fare 15 Traveler’s question 16 Mother of Judah 17 Pieces for a wannabe conductor? 18 Afterthought preceder 19 U.S.’S leading employer of mathematicians, it’s said 20 How some agents travel 22 What looks can’t do? 25 Wind 26 Arranges 30 Took off 32 Give false hope 33 __ wedge: golf club with maximum loft 35 Evil 37 Sunday morning server 38 Blank spaces 41 Underwater beginnings 42 First-aid product prefix 44 Cone’s counterpart 45 Long and hard, as a stare 47 Trig calculation 49 Metaphors for high esteem 51 Home of the 75-feet-tall Golden Driller statue 53 Controversial late Russian painter Glazunov 54 Tiger, perhaps 57 Only team with a gold at every Summer Olympics: Abbr. 60 Bush advisor 61 Weather record 65 Lumberjack 66 Cleaning product claim 67 Lawn care brand 68 Corridor
DOWN
1 Leg, slangily 2 Pressing need? 3 Mulder and Scully, briefly 4 Fine-tuned 5 “The Fresh Prince of __-Air” 6 NFL passing stat 7 Ear-piercing 8 New Jersey public university with a campus in China 9 Swedish company that invented Bluetooth 10 Mortise mate 11 Shut out 12 Place for pets at an airport 13 Right way? 14 “Yay!” 21 __ pal 23 Role model 24 Like some probes 26 Blighted area 27 Dwarf planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter 28 “Give me that!” 29 Get past 31 Online flame thrower? 34 Swiss cultural city 36 2019 and 2020 Grammys host, or what she plays 39 Get time off? 40 Maker marketplace 43 Not yet delivered 46 Knickknack stand 48 Director Roth 50 Signs of repetition 52 Hawk tickets 54 Q.E.D. part 55 Amorous letters 56 Trees with splitresistant wood 58 Squandered 59 Parks of Alabama 62 Words with bit and way 63 Plant activity: Abbr. 64 Word that sounds like its last letter