Crossword Edited by Will Shortz

No. 0123

ACROSS

1 A wing for a

prayer

5 Club gig with prerecorded tracks, informally

10 Wambach with a 2016 ESPY Icon Award

14 Pioneering

synthesizer

15 Tirades

16 Give a hoot

17 Breathing aid demonstrated by a flight attendant

19 Chowder morsel

20 Camouflage

21 Irritate

22 Pool swindler

25 Protective drape

for an X-ray

28 Mother ___

30 Tenant’s payment

31 Jazz’s Fitzgerald

32 Playfully bites

35 Dit’s counterpart

in Morse code 38 Principles for good prose in a classic writing guide by Strunk & White … or a hint to the wardrobe assembled at 17-, 25-, 47- and 57-Across

41 Coiffures,

informally

42 Wolflike

43 Tumbling spot for

Jack and Jill

44 First, second,

third or reverse

45 Hip-hop dance move of the 2010s

47 Major-league award for fielding prowess

52 Delivery person,

for short

53 Decorative woodwork technique

54 Cut from the

same cloth

56 ___ all-time high 57 Headgear designed to block psychic intrusions Tasty treats, in memespeak Take responsibility for something A red-and-white target, for Target Weather-resistant wood Polynesian Disney heroine

Eject with force 62 63 64 65 66 67

DOWN

1 ___, amas, amat … Pestilence Base for tofu and tempeh Soda fountain treat that contains neither of the ingredients in its name Title Bond villain Actor Malcolm-___ Warner

7 Plumber’s drainclearing device

8 Flying saucer

crew, for short

9 Cluck of

disapproval

10 Tolerate

11 Hay-collecting

machine

12 Congratulatorysounding letter in the NATO alphabet

13 Neighbor of Oman

18 Fraternal order

21 Culottes or

corduroys 2 3

4 5 6

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22 Knight’s mount

23 “Greetings!”

24 French setting for

a van Gogh

26 Bad match on

tinder?

27 Overwhelm with

noise

29 Like most holidays and physicals

33 Specialist in PC

problem-solving

34 Omega preceder

35 Going out, as

embers 36 Ease, as worries

37 Actress Mirren

39 Mournful verse

40 Poe poem with the line “How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle”

44 Polish city by the

sea

46 Isao of golf

47 Colossal

48 How a ballerina

pirouettes

49 Camelid sometimes used to guard sheep 50 Game show co-host who could be called a “woman of letters,” familiarly

51 Small and pixieish 55 Speck

57 When repeated, a kind of drum

58 ___ Jima 59 Use a pogo stick

60 Ripen nicely, as wine