CROSSWORD
DOWNSIZING
ACROSS
1 Shoestring neckties
6 Still to come
11 Deck post topper
14 In pieces
15 ___ cum laude
16 Be in arrears
17 Seafood cocktail morsel
19 Monopoly token
20 Serpent in “Antony and Cleopatra”
21 Tattle on, with “out”
22 Peak condition
24 Gift in a goody bag
26 Salesperson’s prospects
27 Googol, e.g.
31 Chevy’s destination, in “American Pie”
32 ___ Diamond Phillips of “La Bamba”
33 Lopsided win
37 Name in escalators and moving walkways
38 Run in the wash
40 “Celeste Aida,” e.g.
41 “My goodness!”
42 Fairness-in-hiring agcy.
43 Rancher’s mark
44 Average physique
48 Veg out
51 Pinball penalties
52 Viewpoint in an op-ed 55 Bespectacled Disney dwarf
56 Word after get or jet 59 Feature of most overalls
60 Nickels and dimes
63 In need of sanding or salting
64 Conical abode
65 Battery-powered smoke shop items
66 Org. in “Snowden”
67 Elvis’ signature expression
68 Lenders’ takebacks, for short
DOWN
1 Tijuana’s locale, for short
2 ___ Dei (“The Da Vinci Code” group)
3 Tensor or Tiffany
4 Planet, to a poet
5 Basement’s use, often 6 Kutcher who played Steve Jobs 7 Lew Wallace’s “Ben-___” 8 Spew forth 9 Water balloons, to pranksters 10 Horse with a mottled coat 11 Cold-weather drink 12 Banquet bestowal, perhaps
13 Salon jobs, for short
18 Stash some cash
23 Many Formula One racers
24 First-term congressman
25 Nix as a possibility
27 Jared of “Dallas Buyers Club”
28 “We Try Harder” sloganeer, once
29 Stooge who lampooned Adolf
30 Popular brew, for short
31 Navigator’s notes
34 ___ fixation (stage of infancy)
35 Baby-sit
36 Inflate, as a bill
38 Bassinet or berth
39 Nanakuli neckwear
43 Totally louse up
45 Isn’t fictional
46 “Hello, Dolly!” Tony winner Bette
47 Group of like-minded voters
48 Avian harbinger of spring
49 Many DeMille productions
50 Benghazi’s land
53 Spilled salt, to some 54 Farmer’s tanned area, typically
56 Cut, as coupons
57 Kellogg’s toaster waffle
58 Ms. Durbeyfield of fiction
61 “Go Set a Watchman” novelist Harper
62 Hotshot pilot or pitcher