Crossword No. 652: Mixtape
ACROSS
1 My Left Foot Oscarwinner Fricker
7 Half a dance
10 Fun-to-walk-on carpet
14 9,896-line tale
15 Casual greetings
16 John Deere rival
17 Pants since 1873
19 Dismounted
20 Poem about nature
21 Hitchhiker’s goal
22 Dunder Mifflin unit
23 Enjoys fancy clothes and cars, say
26 Buddy, in southern Belgium
29 Barbie’s beau
30 North Carolina ___ Heels
31 With
45-Across, wise choice when faced with a dilemma 34 Third-to-last country alphabetically
38 Odyssey
39 Overflowing (with)
42 ___ chips (baked snack)
43 The planets of our solar system, e.g.
45 See 31-Across
47 It’s feathered but flightless
49 Letter after “kay”
50 “___ me get this straight...”
51 Chapel covers
57 More than expected
58 Dove or Dial
59 Apple options
63 Level
64 No. 1 hit for the subject of the new biopic Elvis—and like the letters in ELVIS in one word of each theme entry
66 Political commentator Klein
67 ___ shot
68 Hun head
69 Harsh sound
70 Iris’ place
71 Vein insertions
DOWN
1 Indonesian island
2 Marsh plant
3 Be jealous of
4 Sam of Jurassic Park
5 Now-disabled YouTube button
6 Word like “weird” (abbr.)
7 Spiced drinks
8 Source of the words “mantra” and “mogul”
9 Permission
10 ___: The Final Frontier (1989 William Shatner movie that was the fifth installment of its series)
11 Like old socks, often
12 Sans serif typeface
13 “I was totally fooled!” 18 Before the present, poetically
24 Fashionista Wang
25 For example
26 One voice 27 Soldier-for-hire, briefly
28 “You sure about that?”
32 Cynical revenue source
33 Butchers trim it
35 Word after junk or fan
36 Ms. Macpherson 37 Oriole’s home
40 Wins every game in a series
41 Spring festival
44 “Why did you have to tell me that...”
46 Gould of Capricorn One
48 ___ at Any Speed (1965 Ralph Nader book)
51 ___ Works (Monopoly space)
52 Doolittle or Dushku
53 Active types
54 “Wowzers!”
55 Assessor’s concern
56 Struck, archaically
60 Similar (to)
61 Creepily insular group
62 Relaxing businesses 65 Holds