ACROSS
1 Alligator ___ (avocado)
5 Trite
10 What goes sideways?
14 Instrument described as “an ill wind”
15 Justice Samuel
16 Prince Charles, e.g.
17 Cheap beer to sip while golfing?
20 Cared for a friend’s cat, say
21 Harris who made history in 2020
22 Mathematician Lovelace
23 Issa of “Insecure”
25 “That hurt!”
26 Name within “Benedict”
27 Chant from a crowd that hates Thunderbolt ports?
30 “Frontline” channel
32 Wintry mix
33 What may require a 20-sided die: Abbr.
36 Was on TV
38 Above, to a bard
39 Diet that avoids processed food
41 Confucian path
42 Figurine of a “notorious” justice?
45 Santa ___, California
46 Oddity
48 Slob’s opposite
50 Part of a precarious chain
51 Hiss sources
52 Utensils for detangling spaghetti?
56 Dragon’s burst of smoke
59 New Zealand native
60 Toy for a windy day
64 Great Plains people
65 Flashiness, informally
66 Bus. class
67 Special brownie ingredient
68 Old Pontiac
69 Like pink hair
DOWN
1 Daddy’s partner, maybe
2 Went out like the tide
3 Major artery
4 Shot callers
5 They’re settled when they’re picked up
6 ___-country (music genre)
7 Dr. Fauci’s agcy.
8 Breakfasted or lunched
9 Strand, as one’s babysitter
10 Buddy
11 Was on TV again
12 Lit path on a train
13 “Daily” food in a prayer
18 Rowing tools
19 Uncultured people
24 Memorial speech
25 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” king
27 One of many for a Q-tip
28 Pea, for a pea plant
29 ThirdLove undergarment
30 Upright or grand
31 Ride for a Quidditch player
34 Endurance exercise for abs
35 Wish granter
36 Ever so slightly
37 Liquid-Plumr alternative
39 Morning-after pill brand
40 Acorn makers
43 Word that means “flowers,” with or without “ss” at its center
44 Musical set in France, to fans
47 Less than pleased
49 Assigned work to
53 “Rats!”
54 Cover in chocolate, maybe
55 Ricelike pasta
56 “Bam!”
57 Colorado native
58 Enemy
61 Slick, as a road
62 One has a nail
63 Apt word for this slot
solution
puzzle
