CROSSING WORDS
ACROSS
1 Kitchen VIP
5 Pants part
9 Tilt skywards
14 Barnacles’ place
15 Semicircular church area 16 Backspace over, say 17 Coloratura’s showstopper 18 Oenophile’s figure
19 Not as stormy
20 Editor’s “Whoa!”
23 World record
suffix
24 Guitar great
Montgomery
25 Kennel sound
26 Texter’s “Very
funny!”
27 Cut one’s
choppers
32 Island nation in
Melanesia
35 Teller of fish
stories
39 Hawke of
“Boyhood”
40 Stare intently
43 “Oh, shucks!”
44 Yakuza game
maker
45 Candidates for
shearings
46 Caribbean capital
48 Roofer’s goo
50 Courtroom
figures, briefly
52 Soup order
53 Pale or brown
beverage
56 Heed sound
advice
61 California roll, e.g.
62 “Waterloo”
singing group
63 PC accessories
with scroll wheels
64 Rep. Ilhan Omar’s
religion
65 Marx with a
manifesto 66 Palindromic
address
67 This puzzle’s title
suggests it
68 Periods named
for music genres
69 SRO part
DOWN
1 Pursue
2 “Everybody ___” (REM hit)
3 “Cats” poet T.S.
4 Move one’s wings
5 Greet someone
6 Fencing choices
7 “Immediately” letters
8 Gilliam or Jones of Monty Python
9 Bike variety
10 Eye-color area
11 Treasure map measurement
12 Functions
13 A pop
21 Tango requirement
22 “Help yourself!” 26 Appreciates, on
28 Old anesthetic
29 Melting period
30 Loser in an Aesop
fable
31 Termini
32 Custard dish
33 Hawkeyes’ home
34 Runs for health
36 Networking
connections
37 ID checker’s
concern
38 Scott Joplin composition 41 Preparation period
42 Certain dice
throws
47 Its cap. is Abu
Dhabi
49 Gorilla
51 52-Down, e.g.
52 Hooded
slitherer
53 From Tibet,
for example
54 Union chapter
55 Foe 56 Richly elegant
57 Archipelago unit
58 Counterfeit
59 Alpine lift
60 Shot and shell
61 Bea
benchwarmer