The Daily Crossword
ACROSS
1 High standards
7 All-in-one product’s
selling points
11 Open page on a
web browser
14 Weasellike pet
15 Spot for pore strips 16 “Don’t Bring Me
Down” band
17 *Locavore
movement
19 Also
20 Mos. and mos.
21 Diary
22 Identity __
24 *Insulating layer
around a nerve
28 Bounce back
31 Phone notification 32 Former Disney
president Michael 33 Aromatherapy
locale
34 Snakelike fish
37 *Accept a difficult
role
42 Alex and __: jewelry company known for bracelets 43 Have debts
44 Witherspoon of “The Morning Show”
45 Invisible urban
pollution
48 Fake names
50 *Use a randomizer
to decide, say
53 Refers to
54 Harley-davidson’s
stock symbol
55 Friend 58 Maker of Good
Grips kitchen tools 59 What an investigative journalist might do, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do
64 Tear
65 One of Eve’s sons 66 Dressing with
anchovies
67 Super Mario Bros.
console
68 Sup
69 Florence’s role in “Black Widow” and “Hawkeye”
DOWN
1 Dubious
2 Letter opener
3 Texts the wrong
person, say
4 Branch
5 Word before “It Go” and “It Be,” in song titles
6 Pinched
7 34-Across, to a
sushi chef
8 Cry noisily
9 Night sch. class 10 Quietly fume
11 Private
discussions
12 In the air
13 Diner option
18 Snitched
23 The first “H” of
HRH
24 Sunbeam floater 25 Citrus hybrid used in Japanese cuisine
26 Kitten-lifting spot 27 Shut noisily
28 Duty roster
29 __ Rachel Wood of
“Westworld”
30 Some halters
33 That woman
35 Alternatively
36 Vintner’s dregs
38 Fancy-schmancy 39 __ pop: Belle and
Sebastian genre 40 Singer India.__
41 “Snow Crash” novelist Stephenson 46 Number of World Series wins for the Nationals
47 “No way to
sugarcoat this”
48 “I see now”
49 Mid-size Subaru 50 Obvious disdain 51 Folklore trickster 52 Pod member
55 Selfie stance
56 Galway Bay’s __
Islands
57 Harp constellation 60 Squeeze bunt stat 61 Poetic twilight
62 RSVP
convenience
63 __ Aviv