Quick Crossword

Across

1 Eva of “Green Acres”

6 Smart guy?

10 Mosque leader

14 L.A.’s Staples Center, e.g. 15 “The lady __ protest too much,

methinks”: “Hamlet”

16 Zilch

17 Frozen rain

18 “The African Queen” co-screenwriter James

19 Fairly brisk gait

20 ESP neighbor, to the IOC

21 *Site of an annual ball drop 24 Acrylic fiber

26 Bach composition

27 Was understood, finally 29 Halley observation

31 Bernie’s songwriting partner 32 Hawaii state bird

33 Poetry competition

37 Flight tracker info

38 *Comedic climax

41 In the style of

42 Unkempt dos

44 Electrical unit

45 Polite refusal

47 Lock on one’s head

49 “To clarify ... “

50 Less prevalent

52 Oscar, for one

53 *Ray Kinsella in “Field of

Dreams,” e.g.

56 Quarterback’s asset

59 Como una mujer con mucho

dinero

60 Best ever, initially

61 Paddled boat

63 Haphazard way to run 64 Salinger title girl who says, “I’m extremely interested in squalor”

65 Florida theme park

66 Things of little consequence 67 Kevin Costner in “Field of

Dreams,” e.g.

68 Judges

Down

1 Shocked sound

2 Folksy Guthrie

3 *Keg buy in a pub

4 Half a pair

5 Not good under-the-hood sound 6 Rhett’s last words

7 Theater tier

8 Sorbonne summers

9 Knights or rooks

10 Somehow knows

11 French Revolution radical 12 Love to pieces

13 Deckhand

22 Charged particle

23 Montreal’s prov.

25 Old MGM rival

27 Apparently are

28 Kind of sax

29 Phones in pockets or purses 30 Working the case

32 Oxfam and CARE, for two 34 Wedding reception finale, and a feature of the answers to starred clues

35 Et __: and others

36 Damages

39 Batting stats

40 Improved in value

43 Barely runs?

46 Item for a dinghy

48 Civil War soldier

49 Pan Am rival

50 “Spider-Man” trilogy director

Sam

51 Fancy neckwear 52 Subsequent to

53 Source of fiber

54 121-episode TV drama set on a

mysterious island

55 Tibetan honorific

57 Space

58 Citi Field team

62 Bonobo, for one