9/21/16
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1D
Not moving
AT REST
2D
One sharing a Wi-Fi password, maybe
ROOMIE
3D
Racks up, as debt
INCURS
4D
Jewelry worn by Barbara Stanwyck in “Double Indemnity”
ANKLET
5D
Dregs
LEES
6D
Pony Express’s Missouri terminus, informally
ST JOE
7D
Lacks
HASN’T
8D
Lawyer’s title: Abbr.
ESQ
9D
Sch with a Phoenix campus
ASU
10D
Give a long, grandiloquent speech
PERORATE
11D
Buttercup family member with irregularly shaped blossoms
LARKSPUR
12D
What’s the ___?
USE
13D
It secures locks
GEL
18D
O’Brien who wrote “The Things They Carried,” 1990
TIM
19D
Alpine goat
IBEX
24D
Wail on a 33-Down
SHRED
25D
Full House uncle
JESSE
26D
Forever, seemingly
EON
27D
QB rating factor: Abbr.
YDS
29D
Div in a “Law & Order” spinoff
SVU
32D
Nobel Prize-winning daughter of the Curies
IRENE
33D
Fender model, familiarly
STRAT
34D
Eye, in Ávila
OJO
36D
Phone screening service
CALLER ID
37D
Movie screening service
ON DEMAND
38D
Bag-screening org.
TSA
39D
Financial news inits.
WSJ
40D
French quencher
EAU
43D
___ sure you know …
AS I’M
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
45D
Colorist’s task
DYE JOB
46D
Took on, as a challenge
ROSE TO
47D
19th-century author who wrote “Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief”
AUSTEN
48D
Michigan’s ___ Pointe
GROSSE
50D
Cherokees, for example
JEEPS
51D
Playground comeback
IS TOO!
52D
Dashboard fig.
MPH
56D
Tony-winning musical that begins and ends on Christmas Eve
RENT
57D
Kazakhstan, once: Abbr.
SSR
58D
Its speed is usually measured in GHz
CPU
59D
My man
BRO
60D
Albanian coin
LEK
1A
Common sans-serif font
ARIAL
6A
Citi Field predecessor
SHEA
10A
Stop up ..or talk up
PLUG
14A
Unit for a lorry
TONNE
15A
News agency for a 57-Down
TASS
16A
Make less difficult
EASE
17A
Flying furry friend from Frostbite Falls, formally
ROCKET J SQUIRREL
20A
Mayonnaise, for one
EMULSION
21A
___ choy
BOK
22A
Entry in an equine family tree
SIRE
23A
New York sports fan’s purchase
METS JERSEY
28A
Students may pass them
TESTS
30A
Six-legged creature, to an entomologist
HEXAPOD
31A
Hazmat suit features
VISORS
35A
Wine casks
TUNS
36A
Rigoletto, for one
COURT JESTER
39A
Detach gradually (from)
WEAN
41A
Diminishes by degrees
ERODES
42A
Uhura portrayer Zoë
SALDANA
44A
Something boring
A DRAG
49A
1962 François Truffaut film classique
JULES ET JIM
53A
Bite ___ tongue!
YOUR
54A
British record giant
EMI
55A
Trattoria shot
ESPRESSO
57A
Spring into action ..or an apt directive for 17-, 23-, 36- and 49-Across
SCRAMBLE THE JETS
61A
Go round and round
SPIN
62A
Defaulter’s auto, often
REPO
63A
Students may pass them
NOTES
64A
Ant-Man star Paul
RUDD
65A
And I should care because …?
OK SO …?
66A
Porterhouse cousin
T-BONE