DAILY BRAIN TEASERS

ACROSS

1 Isabel Allende’s “In the __ of Winter”

6 Albumen container

9 Blades on a small 12-Down, for short 14 Words said with a shrug

16 Biathlete’s equipment

17 Tosses a monkey wrench into

18 Site for a rite 19 Catch or latch follower

20 R&B’s Boyz II __ 21 Like some auctions

22 Grandpa Walton, to Grandma Walton 24 Tag sale reminder 26 Teachers’ org. 27 Apprised (of) 31 Accordion fold 33 Like some chins 34 Word with history or hygiene

36 Puerto __

39 Crass

40 San Antonio team 41 CGI birds in Liberty Mutual Insurance commercials 42 Important stretches 43 Tach stats

44 Puff up 45 Announce 47 Argentine novelist Sabato

49 Wanted poster letters

51 Fill with freight 53 __ française 54 Luxury furs

56 “90 Day Fiancé” cable channel 58 News article intro 62 Gather wool from 63 Stack at Famous Footwear, and a hint to the sets of circled letters

65 Put in office 66 Topic of a note home, perhaps

67 Big name in rain gear

68 Terminus 69 Reptile with sticky toe pads

DOWN

1 Soybean paste 2 Catcher Rodríguez inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2017

3 Credit report item 4 Total yawner 5 Little one 6 Perimeter

7 __ Davis Institute on Gender in Media 8 Fuel for some grills 9 Extol

10 Tiny stream

11 Frequently

12 See 9-Across

13 Mattress choice

15 Sonnet line quintet

21 Opera virtuoso Beverly

23 Put away

25 Few and far between

27 43,560 square feet

28 Make fuzzy

29 Visibly embarrassed

30 Bested

32 Question for an astrobiologist 35 Ingredient in many tropical cocktails

37 __ classic 38 Norwegian home of the Fram Museum

40 Misses overseas: Abbr.

44 NBC show that inspired “30 Rock,” for short 46 Warns

48 Sped

49 Plus

50 “Four Inhabitants of Mexico” painter 52 Actor Hawke 55 Valentine trim 57 “Downton Abbey” title

59 COO, e.g.

60 Work place 61 Standard Oil brand

63 Abbr. in some vineyard names 64 Important

QUICK CROSSWORD

Across

1 “...Have you any ___?” (4) 3 Police unit for high-risk operations (4,4)

9 Group of eight (5) 10 Reupholstering materials (7) 11 Worker for Santa (3)

12 Scheme of furnishings for a home or office (5)

14 James Fenimore Cooper’s “___-Stocking Tales” (7) 15 Senator Tom ___ from Arkansas (6)

17 Syndicate (drugs, oil, etc) (6) 21 Get rusty (7)

23 Garden shovel (5)

26 Initialism said when you have heard more than enough (3) 27 Flapjack (7)

28 Fertilizer derived from sea birds (5)

29 Out of th; blue; all at once; without warning (8)

30 “Some are satin, some are steel, some are ___ and some are leather” (BillyJoel lyric) (4)

Down

1 Tried to win over (5) 2 Visionary nerves? (5)

4 On the menu at IHOP (6) 5 Shinbone (5)

6 “The Great” or “the Terrible,” say (7)

7 Mediterranean wind. (7) 8 Quadraphonic predecessor (6) 13 “I” problem, maybe (3) 15 Garments (7)

16 Injured, as an ankle (7) 18 Give out tasks (6) 19 Go off the deep ___ (3)

20 Narrate anew (6) 22 Hardly a happy camper (5)

24 Iconic game console (5)

25 Downloadable rea