CROSSWORD
THAT’S THE TICKET
ACROSS
1 Hefty volume
5 Wear a long face
9 Cut corners
14 Lyft alternative
15 “Makes sense to me”
16 Typical 64-Across for Hitchcock
17 The brainy Simpson 18 Dropped into the collection plate
19 Without peer
20 TV episode with a cliffhanger ending, perhaps
23 Place a value on
24 “How ya doin’?”
25 Bodycam wearer
28 Urban renewal targets 31 Synth-heavy music genre
33 Create seams
36 Policy allowing unrestricted travel
38 Winter Olympics leap
40 Chinese leader who met with Nixon 41 “Survey ___ . . .” (game show phrase)
42 Blink of an eye
47 Jeans go-with, often
48 Chinese dish served family-style
49 Places for pants patches
51 Stubborn equine
52 Muesli morsel
54 Watched a friend’s dog, say
58 Place to jot down notes 61 Seventeen-syllable verse
64 Auditioner’s goal
65 Margin in a close race
66 Footnote abbr.
67 No-win situation?
68 Chaotic scenes
69 Migratory birds
70 Strong cravings © Andrews McMeel 71 Features of the Swiss skyline
DOWN
1 Oklahoma oil city
2 Awards similar to Tonys 3 Badlands formations
4 Removes all traces of
5 Joins a club, say
6 Separate mil. branch since 1947
7 First name in denim
8 Banshees’ laments
9 Ticket seller at a sellout 10 Veggie in some chips 11 Texter’s “If you ask me . . .”
12 Rooks, but not ravens
13 “The Black Cat” author 21 Capital on a fjord 22 Lot purchase 25 Flout the rules 26 How corned beef is often served 27 Rustler-pursuing group
29 Viral video, e.g.
30 Handful of peanuts, perhaps 32 Fixed-term investments, for short
33 Olympic figure skater Cohen
34 Shows with exhibit booths 35 Consequences of paintball strikes
37 Timely benefit
39 Sassy talk
43 “So adorable!”
44 Rigel or Deneb
45 Huey, Dewey and Louie, to Donald
46 Word before fryer or freezer
50 Prose: paragraph:: poetry:___
53 Late for school 55 Thread holder 56 Fabulist who wrote of an also-ran hare 57 Long lock 58 Competes in a super-G
59 Ran like heck
60 Tartan-sporting family 61 Harley, slangily 62 Tarzan’s adoptive mother, e.g.
63 Zamboni’s milieu