THE DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Star-crossed 8 Enhanced the

recipe with 15 “Invisible Man”

author

16 Always raring to

fight

17 Buzz

19 Increase, with

“up”

20 Org. monitoring

insecticides 21 Vex

22 Sideline advisers 25 Buzz

33 Tickle

34 Rock box 35 Marathon

Petroleum brand 36 “The spring is __ when green geese are a-breeding”: Shak. 37 Intuitively grasp,

in slang 38 Calculated intake 39 “Medical” sports

nickname 42 Cuisine including

jambalaya 44 Buzz 47 Calculated intake 48 West African

capital

52 Bed for an unexpected guest, maybe 53 Puts out, in a way 57 Buzz 61 Developing 62 Place to put your

feet up 63 Lowered 64 Bygone employees of cautious royalty

DOWN

1 Toothless farm

denizens 2 Plenty

3 Ballet motion 4 Struggle with

scissors? 5 Santa Fe-to

Dallas dir. 6 2013 Alice Mcdermott novel that was a National Book Award finalist 7 Get testy with 8 Evoke an “ooh”

from, maybe 9 Small application 10 Like a country at the bottom of a rainfall chart 11 2013 Mandela

portrayer

12 Food regimen 13 Swedish

superstore 14 Hornet home 18 Russian retreat 22 Trig. function 23 Verbal pause 24 Dubious ability 25 Sykes of

“black-ish” 26 Treats with embossed surfaces

27 __ beast: holiday dinner in a Seuss classic 28 Engraver

Albrecht 29 Persisted noisily,

as a storm 30 Diamond flaw? 31 USDA concern 32 Memento

39 CSI stuff 40 Snitch

41 Like gossip worth

spreading 42 Bach wrote one

about coffee 43 “Kidnapped”

monogram 45 Speaks formally 46 Likely to scald 48 Within

49 With 50-Down, group for movie enthusiasts 50 See 49-Down 51 Comic Rudner 53 Bring (out) 54 Top

55 __ gum: common thickening agent 56 RR sched.

components 58 “__ we on for

tonight?” 59 Dowel 60 Repeated contraction in the ’50s TV “Superman” intro