Crossword

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

21. The Clan of the Cave Bear novelist Jean 23. Stay or go, e.g. 24. 59 down prefix 25. Conductor Solti 26. Receptacle at the bottom of a fireplace 27. Rap’s ___ B 28. Dogie collar? 29. Rent out 31. Chapeau container

32. 2001 actor Keir 33. “Look! Over there!”

38. Make, as money 40. Supremely uncomfortably scary 41. It might have sides

44. Work with feet? 45. Narcissist’s focus 46. Ocean spray 49. “No harm, no foul”

50. Get something down

53. Reggae fan 54. Cosmetician Lauder

55. Smooshed circles 56. Old couples 58. Put in the mail 59. Blue planet 60. Spice Girl Halliwell

61. Mulligans 63. Caviar 64. Marked time 65. Former Disney CEO Bob

Forty-one of the answers in this crossword are too long and won’t fit in the spaces provided. Each of these answers will either begin or end in the gray square immediately before or after it. When the puzzle is done, all the gray squares will have been used exactly once, and the letters in them (reading left to right, line by line) will spell out a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Across 1. “Memory” musical 5. Old Testament prophet 10. Just starting out 14. Cookie that comes in “the Most Stuf” variety 15. Get Shorty novelist Leonard

16. Coca ___ 17. Alternatives to some airconditioners

19. Trinity novelist Leon

20. Trattoria order served in slices

21. Subtle shade

22. Bipedal: hyph. 26. La ___ opera house

30. Mooches (off of) 34. Carrot-munching critters

35. Strictly off-limits 36. Election day: abbr. 37. “Please,” to Shakespeare 39. Shake and quake 42. 2021 hurricane 43. Scruffs of the neck

47. Around the Horn host Tony 48. John Wick, e.g. 51. Cognitive development psychologist Jean 52. Sky-high cost? 54. Slender 57. Shiatsu session 62. Goes down a

runway 63. ___ voter 66. Height meas. 67. Most achy 68. Paragraphs before the actual story 69. Where Big Bertha was manufactured

70. Livestock identifier 71. “So much ___!” 10. Quito’s country 11. Frayed 12. ___ in Borderland 13. Zap with a gun 18. Nonsensical poppycock

Down 1. Brother’s hood

2. Classic font choice 3. Change for a $50, say 4. Soft drink selection

5. Like some patches 6. Plant used in hay 7. “___ Ramblin’ Man” (Waylon Jennings hit) 8. Four-star: hyph. 9. Part of a triathlete’s stats: abbr.

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