PUZZLE 2

No. 0221

ACROSS

1 Like plans and

eggs

5 High-five, e.g.

9 With 68-Across, ulterior motive … or what 21-, 37and 59-Across each has?

15 Start of a

conclusion

16 Rose or Rozelle

of sports

17 Get situated

18 “Darn!”

19 Bring in

20 Bestows, in the

Bible

21 New York Cityborn ice cream brand with a Danish-sounding name

24 A scarf might

cover it

25 Group of nine

26 Frank who directed “It’s a Wonderful Life” 28 Long-running sketch show, in brief

30 Fab Four

drummer

31 The Wizard of

___ Park (Edison)

32 Word before

angle or awake

33 Next-to-last Greek letter 35 “The Bourne Identity” org. 36 Home to the Taj Mahal 37 1970s auto that shares part of its name with one of Santa’s reindeer 43 The “E” in the mnemonic HOMES 44 “Well, well, well!”

45 Airport screening

grp.

46 Wambach in the National Soccer Hall of Fame

47 Bowling alley

features

49 Slabs

54 Word often confused with “lay”

55 Macho sorts

56 Perfume

ingredient

57 ZZ Top, for one

59 Name for the star

on Israel’s flag

61 Sparkly

headpieces

63 Certain inebriate

64 Apian abode

65 “Do it again!”

66 “Will do!”

67 Dell competitor

68 See 9-Across

69 Certain bulbs,

brief

70 Loch ___

DOWN

1 Tres ___ cake

2 Unmitigated

3 Lizard with a

crest

4 Jackie Robinson,

for one

5 Go on a shopping

spree

6 Headliner

7 The faintest

amount

8 “The Pirates of ___” (Gilbert and Sullivan operetta)

9 Motorcycle, in

slang

10 Olympic skater

Slutskaya 11 Highmaintenance headliner

12 Dramatic

exhalation

13 Double ___

(variety of pun)

14 Math degree?

22 Wyatt and Virgil

of the Wild West

23 First-aid

equipment

27 Lines on a map

29 Kind of jet

31 Sports star inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2021 32 Third word in

many limericks

34 Very muscular, in

slang

37 Wiener schnitzel

meat

38 Circling, as a

satellite

39 Subject of HBO’s 2013 biopic “Behind the Candelabra”

40 Anthem lyricist with a musical name

41 Off-base?

42 Sounded

satisfied, say

48 Something that

can roar or purr 50 Salt Lake City

resident

51 Rookie

52 Cutlery

53 Passover repasts

55 Amass a mass

56 Sailor’s speed

58 ___ Lady (nickname for Margaret Thatcher or the Eiffel Tower)

60 Camelot lady

61 Sri Lankan

specialty

62 The moon’s ___

of Tranquillity