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Daily Crossword Puzzle #5 for Wed, Dec 17, 2025

ACROSS
1. Disorderly crowds
5. Apply (a substance) by light strokes
8. In addition
12. Blind as ____
13. Butter sub
15. Coral collection
16. Make _____ (do battle with)
18. Having or resembling wings
19. Is not
20. Infant food
22. Inveterate users
24. Inconspicuous attention getter
26. Period
27. "Tell ____ the Marines!"
28. Auto club (abbr.)
29. Curvy letter
32. NW Algerian seaport
35. International (abbr.)
37. _ moment's notice (2 wds.)
38. Mild oath, euphamism for damn
39. Lion
40. Russian ruler of old
41. Make supply last
42. Welt
43. Inactive volcano in Sicily
44. Morning condensation
45. Large container
46. Hats (slang)
49. Atmosphere
50. Stricken, poetically
51. Deli grouping
55. Luau course
56. Stitch closed the eyes of (a falcon)
57. Loyal
59. Lean end of the neck
63. Portico
64. The bottom of a shoe or boot
65. Actor's bit
66. Hyperbolic tangent
67. Symbol (abbr.)
68. Singer Brickell

DOWN
1. Opening into something insatiable
2. Chief or king in Benin or Nigeria
3. Tavern
4. Closing up, plugging up
5. ___ good deed
6. Silent film actress Nazimova
7. Necklace unit
8. N. Chile seaport
9. For fear that
10. Elected reps.
11. Often (poetically)
14. Severe or trying experience
17. Political cartoonist Thomas
21. Pacific Standard Time (abbr.)
23. Lyricist Gershwin
25. Bathroom plumbing fixture
28. Ringlike coral islands and reefs
29. Compass direction
30. Comedian Laurel of Laurel & Hardy
31. "Two Mules for Sister ____"
32. Wrote a lyric poem
33. Immoral or dissolute person
34. Afresh
36. Teachers' org.
40. A testis
42. Heat
45. By way of
47. Naughty child
48. "Vaya con ____"
49. Assad's deity
51. Bristle
52. Period of immesurable duration
53. Angers
54. Chop _
56. Fast jet (abbr.)
58. Shade tree
60. To free from
61. Black tropical American cuckoo
62. Turn to the right