daily crossword
ACROSS
1 Lute-like Indian instrument 6 Genesis brother 10 Golfers’ goals 14 Technique-sharpening Chopin piece 15 __ fide 16 From scratch 17 Argument 19 Response to “Marco!” in a pool game 20 Spreading tree 21 Chicago’s Michigan, e.g.: Abbr. 22 Hibachi spot 23 __ de Janeiro 24 1960 hit for Dion and the Belmonts 27 H.G. Wells genre 29 Have regrets about 30 Genesis mother 31 Bias 33 Skin blemish 34 Raised, as horses 35 Extremely impressive quality, informally ... or, when read differently, what the four longest puzzle answers all have 38 Cooking oil source 41 Many a mountain whose name ends in “horn” 42 Tickle 45 Bauxite, e.g. 46 Michelle of the LPGA 47 Scarfed down 49 Do the seemingly impossible, à la Jesus 54 Uni- + bi55 Smelled a lot 56 Bikini top 57 Skin art, for short 58 Pueblo-dwelling people 59 1937 Laurel and Hardy film involving a prospector’s daughter and a gold mine 63 Old-style “once” 64 Sunup direction 65 Eagle’s home 66 Tinting agents 67 Jazz group instrument 68 Actor Romero
DOWN
1 Underground waste conduits 2 Slanted letters 3 Confused state 4 “Much __ About Nothing” 5 NFL official 6 Higher in rank than 7 Destructive beetle 8 Conclude 9 __ Vegas 10 Large edible fruit 11 One more 12 Ease, as pain 13 Fainted 18 Stroller cry 22 Lead-in for heat or cook 24 Derelict overdoing the grape 25 Idle of Monty Python 26 “I’m __ here!”: “Bye!” 28 Baby deer 32 Creator of Finn and Sawyer 33 Microwave 34 Very dry, as Champagne 36 Aviated 37 Poet Khayyám 38 Bovine shelter 39 Cicero’s skill 40 Health setback 43 Hunting dogs 44 Landmass divided by the Urals 46 Stir-fry pan 48 Half of a rain rhythm 50 Gentle washer setting 51 Vast chasm 52 Runs easily 53 __ de Cologne 59 Spider’s creation 60 Little battery size 61 Tic-toe filler 62 Very little, to a Scot