Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
Bring a smile to
1
Wild guess
6
Big jerk
10
*Stay in power
13
Daddy
15
“Put a cork in it!”
16
Vim
17
Impressive work
18
Vandalize, e.g.
19
___ Lanka
20
Hatcher of
21
Hollywood plots *Hold on to
23
Lease alternative
25
*Done openly
26
Mane character
28
of classic TV? Unfiltered and
29
unpasteurized brew
Large blue
31
expanses
One playing with
33
a mouse, maybe
Helpfully pushy
34
person *Changing
37
gradually
Says “I do” at a
41
Vegas drive-thru, say Single-masted
42
boat
Newman who
44
wrote “Heather Has Two Mommies”
Some thrift
47
shop music purchases
It’s in heavy
49
rotation on the highway
*Doesn’t eat
50
Type (in)
53
*On this spot
54
On the sheltered
56
side, nautically Shipping choice
57
Tone
58
Christmas trio
59
Ye olde apothecary bottles
First responder, in brief
Man in the Irish
Sea, e.g.
When revealed in this puzzle, it reverses the meanings of the answers to the starred clues Daisy Ridley’s
67
“Star Wars” role “… and ___
68
some”
Helen who sang
69
“I Am Woman”
61
64
65
66
DOWN
“___ we having
1
fun yet?” Traditional
2
focus of Brooks Brothers @ follower, on
3
Assistant with a
4
goofy beatboxing routine (just ask) Reproductive
5
unit in biology Reproductive
6
unit in botany Mammal with
7
a prehensile proboscis Kwik-E-Mart
8
proprietor on “The Simpsons” Shindig
9
Capital of Eritrea
10
Clean-___
11
Viciously
12
criticizes, informally
Benadryl
14
competitor Square
22
Like the
24
background of the “Wicked” poster
Web address
25
ender
King of pop
26
Country on the
27
Gulf of Guinea Audio tool that
30
reduces volume extremes
Perfumes with a Dig up
32 45 thurible
Like some winter
46
Great Basin tribe
35 weather
Neglect Fitness measure
36 48
Something with
38 two heels Aerial hunter
51
Like some abs Otherworldly
39 52
Performed at
40 Give off
55 one’s peak?
D&D equipment
57
K-pop star whose
43 hit 2012 song Wood in a
60 refrain made baseball bat
“The Yale Book of Quotations” Lead-in to self
62
___, rinse, repeat Slop spot
44