Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
1 “___ Chair” (term of address at a meeting)
6 13-Across,
voicewise
10 Vaccine
watchdog org.
13 “Rumour Has It”
singer, 2011
14 Close one
15 Make public
16 Upbeat response to “How are you?”
18 Some 401(k) investments, in brief
19 Toledo cheer
20 Ceiling
21 Big celebration
22 Annoy
24 Central Brazil,
for the Amazon
27 Slept soundly?
29 Nissan sedan 30 Grand
31 Russian waterway famed for its sturgeon fishery
34 ___ Aviv
35 Musical group that doesn’t play original songs
38 Some Facebook exchanges, in brief
41 Cousins of
mandolins
42 Write a ticket
(for)
45 Place for a dish that’s come from the oven
47 “Rumor has it
...”
49 Costlier than
projected
53 1960s film villain with prosthetic metal hands
54 Water conduit 55 Ghostly
57 Warm greeting
58 Fair-hiring inits.
59 Grammatical connector like “is” or “seem” … or a connector found literally in 16-, 24-, 35and 49-Across
62 ___ Jose
63 Three-wheeler
64 Some honkers
65 “___ to a Superhero” (Weird Al Yankovic parody of “Piano Man”) 66 Trial version 67 Stared at rudely
DOWN
1 Stately homes
2 “Sweet” sweetheart in a barbershop quartet standard
3 Take shape
4 Brewpub order
5 Dark European
thrush
6 When Juliet drinks a sleeping potion that makes her seem dead
7 Coffee in the
milky way?
8 Uno + due
9 Atop, poetically
10 Accepts reality
11 Was in the slammer 12 Arms depot 14 18-wheeler
17 Frequent flier?
21 Big, as a bonus
23 Rocker Clapton
25 Sitar selection
26 Turn pale with
shock
28 Big name in water purification
31 Dog shelter
employee
32 Metal source
33 Units of wt. 36 On-demand digital video brand
37 Fizzled out
38 Wishful words
39 Trailer in a
theater
40 It’s a start
43 North Carolina
athlete
44 One doing lifesaving work at a hosp.
46 Lead-in to position or occupation 47 “Put ___
writing”
48 Creature
comfort?
50 Casual fabric
51 “Wall Street” character Gordon
52 The “E” in
HOMES
56 Breakfast brand
59 Relative of Inc.
60 High dudgeon
61 Be a couch
potato