ACROSS
1. area for competitions and performances
6. someone who writes computer programs
11. vicious jaw or mouth
14. bowling alley isles
15. to combine or bring together
16. plural form of ‘is’
17. diligent, hard-working
19. nothing, zero, nada
20. no win outcome
21. three sounds
23. sergeants, informal
26. Uber Eats but door
27. contemplated again
32. fairy tale preposition
33. USSR labor camp
34. broadcaster/channel of NCIS, Survivor and Big Brother
37. historically male version of ma’am
38. fancy word for freckle
40. long-handled gardening tool
41. Solo who made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs
42. upright or straight
43. head of academic administrative branch
44. climate + plank, compound word
47. what a superhero wears
50. viscous sweet dressings, alternate spelling
51. apprehended by the law
56. second month of the year, abbr
57. 2011 animated bird movie set in Brazil
58. pretentious display intended to garner attention
63. hallucinogenic drug
64. a sword on a stick for jousts
65. Parisian river
66. affirmative answer
67. Josh’s brother
68. attempted
DOWN
1. “The Greatest” American boxer
2. jogged, sprinted
3. finis
4. Nick show featuring Jimmy, Boy Genius
5. to appoint a task to
6. mutt, insult
7. taking care of it, two words
8. Christian —-, luxury goods company
9. small ornamental case, French
10. relaxation
11. miraculous sustenance supplied to Israelites
12. current zodiac season
13. relating to Wales
18. golf ball pedestals
22. descriptor of Timmy Turner’s fairy godparents
23. classic tan camera filter
24. squirrel’s snack
25. authenticating seal on a ring
27. show about the boy band that went Big Time
28. double jump ropes
29. select few who are deemed superior
30. a small dingy towel
31. sense of self-confidence
34. inexpensive
35. wild hogs or pigs
36. to deliver or transmit
38. Bruce, famous martial artist and actor
39. time period
43. someone who has qualms or suspicions
44. small or early
45. a fissure or break that separates
46. boob
47. she hosts an internet show with Freddie and Sam
48. to stand up or emerge
49. pokes
52. to have transferred ownership for a price
53. title of the ruler of Russia, formerly
54. active volcano off coast of Sicily
55. Tech, of cards, to punch
59. French for “originally called”
60. WWI, WWII, WW—
61. “He [Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen] was Number —!”
62. single-handedly declassified the school survival guide
Answers to last week’s puzzle
