Crossword No. 674: Downward Trend
ACROSS
1 Miso soup ingredient
5 ___-sufficient
9 Honey containers
13 Makes owl sounds
15 “Did you ___ wonder...”
16 Actor McGregor
17 Book club leader
18 Okinawa or Diego Garcia, e.g.
20 Shoplifting, e.g.
22 Italian diminutive suffix
23 Skating surface
24 Reaction to bad news
26 “How did I screw that up?!”
27 Univ., for example
28 Spinning cartoon devil
29 1977 Fleetwood Mac hit
32 Inconvenience
34 Latin for “love”
35 Thurman in Showtime’s Super Pumped
36 Comfy stopover
37 Long skirt
38 Landlord’s income
40 Spooky sky sightings
44 Fortas or Simpson
46 Word of puzzlement
47 Road feature
48 Home to the Mavericks
51 Liberates
53 Before now
54 Bro’s sib
56 The ___ of Pooh
57 Bring to port, as a boat without power
58 “What ___ your question?”
59 Business letters?
60 Pig Latin rejection
62 Instrument for a ska band
65 “___ no consequence”
68 State where thousands of minks ran loose earlier this month after escaping from a farm
69 Lack of difficulty
70 Make ___ (hit it big)
71 NL East squad
72 St. Nick’s day
73 Companion one has reunited with, humorously
DOWN
1 Despite, poetically
2 Alley- ___ (highlight reel play)
3 Site of the U.S. gold reserves
4 Jazz players live there
5 Judged too sick to stay at school
6 Perón or Mendes
7 Possessive on pants
8 Levy imposed by about a third of U.S. states
9 Bush family member
10 Anticipates
11 Adorable imp
12 Earn a “Gesundheit!”
14 Storage structures
19 Lindsay in Mean Girls
21 Dow Jones or Nasdaq feature
24 Driver or West
25 State of unconsciousness
30 Court TV event
31 Feelings of guilt or hunger
33 Tobacco type
39 When people are supposed to start driving
41 Casual synonym for President Biden, who met with world leaders in Bali this month to discuss the global economy
42 Common ice cream ingredient
43 Throw off, as survey results
45 Herb in pizza sauce
48 Richard or Rosario
49 Mysterious Christie 50 Flip out
52 Supreme Court first name
55 “Get lost!”
61 “Don’t look ___ like that!”
63 Goddess seen at sunrise
64 ME and MI are in it
66 ___ in a million
67 Cryptocurrency exchange that plummeted in value earlier this month; you can see it happening in the theme entries