Crossword No. 676: Officially Delicious
ACROSS 1 Did some fibbing
5 “Caught you in the act!”
8 Situation where progress is impossible 14 Rice or Lamott
15 Use a Singer
16 Camden Yards player 17 French food added to the UN’s list of culturally important cuisine last week 19 Central Asian flatbread added in 2016
20 What a dog may catch 21 100 yrs.
22 Interminable period 23 Ukrainian soup added to the list earlier this year
27 “U mad, ___?”
30 Rams’ mates
32 Island where Hawaii Five-O is set
33 Lung filler
34 “Download our ___” 37 Workday start, often 39 “Those are but a few examples”
40 Italian food added in 2017, cited specifically for the culture of those who make it professionally 45 www.peta.___
46 The Persistence of Memory painter 47 Thanksgiving table item
48 Geopolitical resource 49 Sister Act extras
51 Gives in to gravity
55 Store with carabiners 56 Peruvian fish dish that nation is campaigning to have added to the list
59 ___ Lanka
60 Leader mentioned in the Beatles’ “Revolution”
62 Virtuoso
64 Korean dish added in 2013, cited specifically for the culture of sharing it at meals 67 North African side dish added in 2020
68 Stage productions 69 Apple hardware runs on it
70 Roughly
71 Mom or pop, say
72 Part of 65-D
73 New driver, often DOWN 1 Chemistry class expense
2 Successively
3 Search ___
4 Latin for “god”
5 Prefix meaning “bone” 6 “Straight”
7 Be in arrears
8 “So funny!”
9 “... ___ like I don’t even know you” (Luke
Bryan lyric)
10 Hand over
11 “Diamonds & Rust” singer
12 Pacino and Roker, e.g. 13 “I’m not real impressed”
18 ___ and flow
24 The Great ___ (1979 Robert Duvall drama) 25 ___ Pet (“The pottery that grows”)
26 Winnie the Pooh’s treat, as he spells it on his jar
28 Cracker with seven holes
29 Killer whale
31 Tree excretion
35 Group of whales 36 Airbus or Boeing, e.g. 38 Waste cleanup org. 40 Jordan’s Queen ___ 41 City between Cleveland and Buffalo 42 Shining, poetically
43 “___ U” (phrase on Valentine’s Day candies)
44 Types to
50 Class clown’s place 52 Onto the beach 53 Complain pettily 54 Enjoys, as a sofa
56 “Over There” composer
57 Zillow.com lookup 58 Movie aliens
61 Plot of land
63 Adam Smith or Andy Murray, e.g.
64 Keystone ___ (member of a hapless force) 65 Drink named for a nation
66 Suffix with special 67 World Factbook publisher