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Daily Crossword Puzzle #5 for Fri, Oct 23, 2026

ACROSS
1. Nervous spasm
4. Indian state
9. First of billions?
13. Purpose
14. Don Adams' spy role
15. Corncob
16. Pipe bend
17. Actors' quests
18. Inconspicuous attention getter
19. Raised railways
21. Actress Charlotte
22. Component
24. Demure
26. Epoch
27. Value system
29. Play the lead
30. Came up
31. Cowardly lion portrayer
33. Affectionate concern, for short
36. Elected rep.
37. Popular '50s hangout
40. Boat paddle
41. Supplement with great effort
42. Lyric poems
43. Lacking in sense or substance
45. Writing tablets
47. Inn
48. Cards in a Roman deck?
49. Not women's
50. Acquire or gain knowledge or skills
52. Health resort
54. Baseball player Mel
56. Table seasoning
57. Practice fights
59. Mouth or opening
61. Singer Brickell
62. Table seasonings
63. Lubricate
64. Sight organs
65. Obtain by seizing forcibly or violently
66. Car dealer's back yard

DOWN
1. Third day of the wk.
2. Small island
3. Portable communications device
4. Cleo's killer
5. Excessive but superficial compliments
6. "Two Mules for Sister ____"
7. Johnson of "Laugh-In"
8. Mountains (abbr.)
9. Seem
10. Flat circle
11. Domed church section
12. Was introduced to
20. Indian titles of respect
22. _ dish (used to culture cells)
23. Retirement account (abbr.)
25. On the rocks
27. Relaxation
28. Long journey
29. "______ My Girl" (Turtles hit)
31. Flaplike coverings
32. "___ Maria"
33. Inedible or poisonous agaric
34. Austrian-born American filmmaker Fritz
35. Algonquian
38. "The Thinker" sculptor
39. The longest river in the world
44. Words to Nanette
45. Food holders
46. Wind
49. Shops
50. Kenny Rogers chart-topper in '80
51. Writer Wiesel
52. Practice fight
53. Diluted with white
55. Musical group of three
56. Observe
57. Compass dir.
58. Fast jet (abbr.)
60. Keyboard modifier key