THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Period after
Shrove Tuesday 5 Lyricist Gershwin 8 Inca __: Peruvian
soft drink 12 Mideast rulers 14 Blues’ org. 15 Passing words? 17 *Bounce around the Caribbean, say
19 Tropical ray 20 Beg
21 “It’s open!” 22 Brought into a
discussion 25 *1983 film that won an Oscar for Best Original Song
27 Adjust after a
wrong turn 29 Courts
30 “The Waste
Land” poet 31 Place to make a
round trip?
32 Lab animal 35 Greeting between members of an exclusive club, and what’s hiding in the answer to the starred clues?
40 Sked “Don’t
know yet”
41 Pack it in
42 Petco Park
player
43 Apiece
45 Animal that can run using its flippers
47 *School of Hindu
philosophy 51 Antique car
design feature 52 Houston team 53 French bread? 55 Sun block? 56 *Was completely
clueless
60 Pueblo dwelling
material 61 Country rockers
Little __ Town 62 Willing parties? 63 Just scrapes (by) 64 Smelter’s supply 65 Show appreciation at a poetry slam
DOWN
1 Lanai wreath 2 First responders,
briefly
3 Bupkis
4 Feature of a
magician’s stage 5 Gulp down
quickly 6 “Darkwing Duck” character Dr. __ Dendron
7 French peak
8 __ dragon 9 2000s first family 10 Tablecloth fabric 11 Top story? 13 NBC sketch show 16 Well-reasoned 18 Skillful
21 A major, for one 22 Peak
23 Big star
24 Writer Jong
26 “__ Lake” 28 Colorado’s Sleeping __ Mountain 31 Sonar operator? 32 Pie chart lines 33 Ohio hometown
of poet Rita Dove 34 Cold
temperatures 36 Support pros 37 “omg so funny!” 38 Tub with jets 39 50-50, facetiously 43 Wrap
44 Fangirls over,
perhaps 45 Greasy fingerprint, maybe
46 Merit 47 Programming language with a coffee cup logo 48 Lines that break the fourth wall
49 “No harm, no
foul!”
50 Show again 54 “I’m excited!” 56 “The White Lotus”
network 57 Annoying racket 58 Notable stretch
of time
59 Nile cobra