THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Mamba kin
6 Peak
10 Some Dada pieces
14 Cover name
15 __ and proper
16 Exactly
17 “Fingers crossed!”
19 Theater award
20 Art Institute of Chicago area, with “the”
21 “Come with me, Spot!”
22 Slightly ahead
23 One with pointy ears and pointy shoes
24 Actress Thurman
25 Unintentionally reply all, say
27 Longtime NASCAR sponsor
28 Denial
30 Miserly desire
32 Egg layer
33 Catchy pitch
34 Flour used for naan and paratha
37 “We card” cards, for short
38 Novelists Patchett and Petry
39 Grand
42 Open __ night
44 Furry toy spiders that move when screamed at
45 Kansas home of Mcconnell Air Force Base
49 Capitol Hill fig.
50 Actor who played Clubber Lang in “Rocky III”
51 Annoy
52 Boar’s mate
53 Elba of “Cats”
55 Tirade
57 Floor model
58 Murmurs lovingly
59 Midday hiatus illustrated three times in this puzzle
61 Asia’s vanishing __ Sea
62 Juvenile outburst?
63 Join
64 Mother of Castor and Pollux
65 __ Spunkmeyer
66 Did well together
DOWN
1 Square dance figure
2 Fútbol cheer
3 Removed with one’s chompers
4 Abrasive tool
5 Bat wood
6 Legal challenge
7 Manitoba people
8 Deceives
9 Genre with introspective lyrics
10 On
11 Endorse without reading, say
12 Makeshift storage container for brushes
13 Becomes more inclined?
18 “That sounds rough!”
22 River through Orsk
24 Employ
26 Trailer park parkers, for short
29 Ryder rival
31 “Stiff” and “Bonk” writer Mary
33 Contribute
34 Out of the ordinary
35 “Sister Carrie” novelist Dreiser
36 E-zpass stretch, say
37 Educate
40 Virtual citizens in a video game
41 __ Lingus
42 Levity
43 “Eww!”
45 Flinches
46 Happy cry from someone who finally deciphers a Magic Eye picture
47 Salsa ingredient
48 No longer asleep
54 Cuba, por ejemplo
56 Years, in Rome
57 Spy-fi villain in a Nehru jacket
59 Southeast Asian language
60 Software glitch