Crossword

MIXED BLESSING by Juliana Tringali GoldenThe American Values Club Crossword is edited by Ben Tausig.

ACROSS 1. Bottled water option from Norway 5. Book group? 10. Fixes some pieces of Road & Track? 15. Really amazing, in slang 16. The same 17. Naomi Campbell was on its cover last November 18. Octet of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs? 20. “I Love It” band ___ Pop

21. Rastafarian god 22. Scotch whisky with the slogan “Don’t be vague, ask for ___” 23. Presses Ctrl+V 24. Totally confused, in a maritime metaphor 26. Liam who played a character with “a very particular set of skills” 29. Crib sound (if you’re lucky) 30. Pine (for) 31. Attila’s most avant-garde friend?

33. Useful device in a post-apocalyptic vampire hellscape, or a veggie garden 35. Canadian Senators, on scoreboards 36. Quaker grains 37. Soft leather whatever? 41. Bring to a boil? 44. Breed that looks similar to a French bulldog 45. Montecristo, but not Monte Cristo 48. Finished an entire bottle of Beefeater?

52. ___ set (certain tool collection) 54. MorningStar Farms makes a meatless one 55. Call before a hike 56. Missing, from the French 57. Skips the registry, say 59. “... sting like ___” 61. Bugs with bonnets? 62. Safe spots on a diamond 63. Blessing mixed four times in this puzzle 66. Comedian Cheri who

does a mean Barbara Walters 67. Director/screenwriter with a 70-Across for Get Out 68. Queen in The Favourite 69. Himalayan cryptids 70. See 67-Across 71. Boosted on Twitter by clicking a cycling arrow icon, briefly

DOWN 1. Early Black-owned record label founded by Vivian Carter and Jimmy Bracken (aptly; and no, they didn’t play music videos) 2. Codeine and morphine, e.g. 3. Throws shade toward, wordlessly 4. Univ., e.g. 5. Rowlands of A Woman Under the Influence 6. Like an ass 7. Gave a little push 8. Nanjiani costar in The Lovebirds 9. Chicago trains 10. Bottled water options from France 11. Certain frontline workers, casually 12. [Wink anda nod] 13. Stop paying attention to 14. Los Angeles basically has two (dry and wet) 19. Doubleplatinum Ariana Grande album, ___, next 23. Colorful, as

writing 25. Wiped out 27. Awards goal for Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock 28. Star Wars baddies 32. Switch back and forth 34. High, arcing novelty baseball pitch 38. “Ebony and Ivory,” for one 39. Snack for Eleven on Stranger Things 40. Pecked, like a puppy 41. Guy who wants to hear the Specials? 42. Contain, as a strain 43. The biggest one was once the Taj Mahal, though it was surpassed in 2007 by the Millennium Falcon 46. Passage in many an action film 47. Burgundy, for one 49. Exercise for some seniors 50. “Be right there ...” 51. Interstellar cloud 53. “Tin roof ... ___!” 58. Prefix with “scope” 60. Cabinet dept. with a lot of power? 63. Mail HQ 64. Wide shoes 65. “So funny I almost forgot to laugh ...”