CROSSWORD Today’s theme

Animals

TAKE THE HIGH WAY ACROSS

1 Interjection from Scrooge

4 Talk smack about 9 Place to dream 12 Diva’s delivery 14 “Citizen Kane” director Orson 16 Tavern offering 17 Beach cart roller 19 No-win situation? 20 Virus named for an African river 21 Graffiti artist’s signature 22 Galahad’s garb 24 Abrasive stuff 26 “Wait a minute!” 28 Regarding, on a memo 31 Barber chair part 33 Duck hunters’ hideouts 35 Game show creator Griffin 36 Kravitz of

“Big Little Lies” 39 Big star’s small part 40 Disreputable sort 41 Diplomatic go-between 43 Stockholm’s land (Abbr.) 44 George Orwell’s alma mater 46 Scum of the earth 47 All the things you want

50 Place for tools 51 Gave a buzz to 52 Rudely short-spoken 54 Feisty “Cheers” waitress 55 Lincoln or Ford 57 With 15-Down, like Death Valley

61 ___ Arbor, Mich. 62 Triangle or square, e.g.

65 “The Simpsons” barkeep 66 Longtime Ebert partner 67 Tickled-pink feeling 68 Pricing word 69 Like drops of perspiration 70 Sever from a tree, with “off”

DOWN

1 Sweetie pie

2 Many a 32-Down

3 Largest city on Hawaii 4 Lowest prime number 5 Accept as a tenant 6 Utah ski resort 7 Gave the brush-off to 8 HRH part, sometimes 9 Jewish girl’s rite of passage

10 “The Waste Land” poet 11 Leaping critter on road signs 13 “Nothing left!” 15 See 57-Across 18 Sculler’s tool 23 Google Maps lines (Abbr.) 25 Hypothetical cases 27 Bruins Hall of Famer Bobby

28 Pre-K basics 29 Side with fish and chips

30 Big name in cable service 32 Muscat resident 34 Works out in a pool 37 Move like slime 38 Gave the onceover to

40 New evidence might reopen one

42 Roth IRA, e.g. 45 Most common English word 46 “Rugrats” dad 48 Under the weather 49 Windbag’s delivery

51 Lake resort rental

53 Sac fly stat 54 Sleep under the stars

56 Paul who wrote “She’s a Lady” 58 Quiet period on the job

59 Cookie crumbled on sundaes

60 Burst into tears 63 Left-winger, for short 64 Spider’s prey, or what the first parts of 17- and 62-Across and 9- and 30-Down can do

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