Crossword Edited by Will Shortz

PUZZLE BY ROLAND HUGET

ACROSS 43 Dannywho 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
  1 Pulsate, as with co-starred
pain in “White 14 15 16
  6 What a red traffic Christmas”
light means 44 Make red-faced 17 18 19

10 Container for 46 Brittle, spicy

20 21 22
soup or cereal cookie
14 ___ acid (protein 50 Besides
23 24 25 26
builder) 51 Hilarious person
15 “Very funny!”
52 Plan going 27 28 29 30 31 32
16 Eye layer forward, as for
17 Chocolaty candy peace 33 34 35 36
on a stick 54 As originally
19 500 sheets of placed 37 38 39 40 41
paper 57 Constantly 42 43 44 45
20 Realtors’ rising things
showings in gentrifying 46 47 48 49 50
21 Endless, in neighborhoods
poetry 58 Where Hartford 51 52 53
23 Guard at an is: Abbr.
entrance 59 Broadcast news 54 55 56 57
26 Length x width, snippets … or an
for a rectangle apt description 58 59 60 61 62 63
27 Desertlike for 17-, 28- and
28 Breakfast cereal 46-Across? 64 65 66
with a naval 64 Grand-scale
officer on its box production 67 68 69

33 Put through a 65 ___ Krabappel,

blast furnace, teacher on “The
11/5/18
say Simpsons”   2 Care provider, 22 Mother 40 Growth under the
35 Dissolute sort 66 Love, love, love briefly canonized in skin
36 Rope-a-dope   3 2016 Olympics 2016 45 Unflattering
67 Meyers of late-
boxer night host, informally 23 Long-winded sort angle of one’s
37 ___-relief 24 Italian designer face
68 Most mammals   4 Hush-hush,
38 Two marks in have four of them slangily Giorgio 47 Christmas stealer
“résumés” 25 Attaches using in a Dr. Seuss
69 Core belief   5 ___ buddy
41 Easy-to-chew string book
food   6 “For Your Eyes 26 Unknown author,
48 Stadiums
42 It ends with DOWN Only” singer for short
diciembre   1 Tit for ___ Easton 29 Fuss in front of 49 Duck’s habitat
  7 Water spigots the mirror 53 Hitter’s turn to
30 Incendiary hit
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE   8 “Look what I
found!” weapon used in 54 Helps reduce the
the Vietnam War swelling of, say
M A L A L A P A C T S   9 Slice from a 31 Category for a 55 Slangy refusal
C A P E M A N E M C E E book? minor-league
C A R P A I N T C O R E R 10 The “B” of F.B.I. team 56 Foul mood
W A N T A D D I G R I T E 11 On top of 32 Rap, by another 57 Step on a ladder
I M T I R E D V I C O D I N name 60 Poem of praise
12 Withdraw
N E O N A T E A M U S E M E 34 “Grab this!”
gradually (from) 61 2,000 pounds
D O R A T H E E X P L O R E R 39 Amusement
13 Unfunny, as a park ride that 62 Before, poetically
D M X
joke goes around and 63 “On your mark,
S A I N T P E T E R S B U R G
18 Apple desktop around get ___ …”
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