CROSSWORD

PHONETICALLY SPEAKING

ACROSS

1 Puzzles on place mats

6 Nike’s swoosh, e.g. 10 Make a boo-boo 14 Supreme Court conservative 15 Stratford’s river 16 “Be seein’ ya” 17 Barbera’s cartoon colleague 18 Brewery supply 19 Place for a roast 20 Like Peruvian ruins 21 Unit on an Italian auto assembly line? 23 Beehives, flips et al.

25 Feel remorse over 26 In danger 30 Small fry

35 Cable channel’s in-house training program? 37 Mahershala of “Green Book” 38 Cheerios grain 39 Quiet fan setting 40 Hopkins role in “Thor”

41 Try to win, with “for”

42 Bit of correspondence from Chaplin? 46 How sausages are connected 48 MS-DOS-based PCs

49 Tuscaloosa’s state (Abbr.)

50 Reply to a captain 51 Time spent as an airline employee? 56 Bill of HBO’s “Real Time”

61 Give off, as radiation

62 Loch Lomond local 63 Suppress, asa vowel

64 “The Farm” painter Joan Answers: 65 Shopaholic’s craving, e.g. 66 Any of Grafton’s “alphabet series” 67 Double Delight cookie 68 Compote fruit 69 Itsy-bitsy

DOWN

1 Hawaiian fish, on menus

2 Bean on the moon 3 Penny’s makeup, mostly

4 Peak near Catania 5 Dirty rat

6 Priests of the East 7 Mirror shape, perhaps

8 “A good walk spoiled,” per Twain

9 Quebec neighbor 10 Placed in the attic, say

11 4-Down output 12 Checklist detail 13 Stained-glass unit 22 Jam-packed 24 Gives the go-ahead to 26 Partner of beyond 27 Prepare for a bout 28 Like most movies 29 OR hookups 30 Guitar book diagram

31 Cry of pain or laughter 32 Hazardous inert gas

33 Best of the best 34 Dressed to the ___

36 Hatfields or McCoys

40 Lennon’s bed-in partner 42 Cub ali bre mixer 43 “Watch out!” 44 Far from congenial 45 Earth, wind or fire

47 Parlor acquisition 50 Autumn bloomer 51 Promo CD 52 Kuwaiti ruler 53 Euros’ predecessors 54 Developer’s measure

55 Class with mats 57 Body wash additive 58 Home to drones 59 “Paradise Lost” setting

60 Have faith in, with “on”

3/28 © Andrews McMeel