LIFE / CULTURE
Crossword for teabreak
Crossword
Published: Apr 20, 2021 06:13 PM
Puzzle

Puzzle

ACROSS

  1 "___ on earth?"

  5 "Confound it!"

  9 Big ___ (7-Eleven drink)

 13 Sharpen

 14 Landlocked African nation

 15 Chimpanzees and bonobos

 16 Nobelist Tokarczuk or Olympic medalist Korbut

 17 On-screen parent such as Lorelai Gilmore

 18 Transcript figs.

 19 Cookbook author Curry

 21 Most gauzy

 23 Queen's domain

 25 Declare

 26 Sphynxes might sit on them

 29 Agenda component

 30 Soccer ball filler

 31 Not just think

 32 Have the final turn

 35 Nutrition fig.

 36 11-year-old, say

 38 Med. research agency

 39 Thing an anxious writer may chew

 42 Dull and dreary

 44 Letters before a pseudonym

 45 Middling

 46 Have plenty of vegetables, say

 48 Ones deserving of respect

 50 Honey-mooners' hotel booking

 51 "Who wouldn't want to date me?!"

 53 Hole-enlarging tool

 56 Org. fighting to end bullfighting

 57 Wishful words

 59 Thompson who qualified for the U.S. Women's Open at age 12

 60 "All right already!"

 61 Birds with big eyes

 62 Not eliminated

 63 "I double-dog ___ you!"

 64 Zilch

 65 "Boy" or "girl" lead-in

DOWN

  1 "Amazing!"

  2 Word before "Grail" or "Ghost"

  3 Title for Obama's satirical assistant Luther

  4 Buckingham Palace service?

  5 Driver's license org.

  6 Bashes into

  7 Hawaiian greeting

  8 3/4, e.g., in music

  9 Source of laughs at the end of a comedy?

 10 Top of an organizational chart, and a hint to the first words of 3-, 8- and 17-Down

 11 ___ common denominator

 12 Cheater's sound during a test

 17 Competition within Miss America but not Miss Universe

 20 "___! The Herald Angels Sing"

 22 This, in Spanish

 24 Sound from a tabby

 26 Complain

 27 Helper on the hill

 28 Greta Thunberg, nationality-wise

 33 Believer in a turban

 34 This' partner

 37 Noted stretches

 40 Savory fish appetizer

 41 Offshore

 43 Sometimes-baked cheese

 47 Roma's home

 48 2004-'05 NBA Rookie of the Year Okafor

 49 Unstressed vowel

 51 Device with a phased-out Shuffle variety

 52 Embrace

 54 Leave

 55 EGOT winner Moreno

 58 Charitable ad, briefly

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