Crossword No. 735:
They Wrote the Songs
ACROSS
1 Tea with tapioca 5 San Antonio mission 10 Ending for teen or tween 14 Having had another owner 15 Plotting group 16 Honor for ads 17 Czech or Croat, say 18 Site with stadium seating 19 Abound (with) 20 Don Henley testified last week in the trial of three men who sold original handwritten lyrics to some of the Eagles’ big hits, including this one 23 Store with inflatable rafts 24 Fifth-to-last element, alphabetically 25 In 2007, this band unsuccessfully sued a warehouse owner upon discovering that handwritten lyrics to many of their hits had been stolen from storage 32 Belarus’ capital 33 Money of Milan, pre-euro 34 Distance 38 Do the math, maybe 39 ___ of limitations 42 Noteworthy period 43 Cardinal’s place 45 Club choice 46 Mystery-writing award 48 In 2017, lyrics for this song, handwritten by Paul McCartney, were yanked from auction owing to an ownership dispute 51 Architect whose middle name was Ming 54 Insurance giant 55 In 1981, U2’s Bono had a briefcase with handwritten lyrics stolen in this U.S. city; in 2003, the briefcase was returned after he had mentioned it during a 2001 concert there 62 Friend of the French 63 Dry white wine 64 Major test 66 Unsmiling 67 Reconnaissance result 68 City three hours from Sacramento 69 Backtalk 70 ___-eyed (weepy) 71 School-canceling weather
DOWN
1 Surname for 41 and 43 2 Birth city of tennis star Casper Ruud 3 Defeated 4 Slowly and surely, for instance 5 Tree also called “wattle” 6 ___ Flynn Boyle of Twin Peaks 7 Genesis figure 8 Half a spa service 9 Frozen snowman 10 Word in two Oscar categories 11 Virginia governor Youngkin 12 Vowels after a sung animal 13 Catholic or Empire preceder 21 Greens in stews 22 Prefix for element no. 8 25 Certain fed 26 Prepare to be sought 27 Winds down 28 Composer-pianist Schumann 29 Show interest in, in a way 30 “When I Was Your Man” singer Mars 31 Bit in a horse’s feedbag 35 Simon of the Mission: Impossible movies 36 Part of UAE 37 With ___ a care in the world 40 Score with no loser 41 Like Poe tales 44 Sits on a precipice 47 Gardeners, often 49 Small, in a cutesy way 50 Every now and then 51 Slim computers 52 Jason in 2023’s Fast X 53 Quiet Toyota 56 “___ happens...” 57 ___ the wiser (still in the dark) 58 Number cruncher’s info 59 “Your turn to talk” 60 Beasts of burden 61 Prefix with tech or bot 65 Cut blades with blades