The WSJ Daily Crossword Edited by Mike Shenk

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GOOD BUDDIES | By Melina Merchant

Across

1 Tent made with buffalo skins

6 When many birds fly south

10 Plot unit 14 iPad array 15 Jai ___ 16 Golfer Mickelson 17 "Don't Wake Me

Up" singer 19 The Jets and the

Sharks may fight over one 20 Empire State Building climber of film 21 Do something 22 Adorns 24 Coal source 26 Peculiar habit 27 Fraudster's schemes

29 Spot to order a 52 Response to a

smoothie

bad baseball call

32 Light wood 33 Noggin 34 Mother of Castor

and Pollux

53 Uses a ray gun on

57 Shape of a D.C. office

35 Friend in France 58 "One O'Clock

36 Trucker's medium, and a

Jump" bandleader

hint to the artists 61 Exhibit anxiety

in this puzzle

62 Bowline or half

39 Crater border

hitch

40 Have a hankering 63 Low joint

42 Hankerings

43 Barber's razor sharpener

45 Mathematical arrays of numbers

64 Dark, like the ocean depths

65 It has its ups and downs

66 Atmosphere makeup

47 Murders

Down

48 Santa feature

1 Clock sound

49 Son of Odin

2 Cave sound

50 Montana's capital 3 Smutty stuff

Solve this puzzle online and discuss it at Puzzles.

4 Puzzles

5 Twisty curve

6 Comedy with much door-slamming

7 Bunches

8 Order's partner

9 Pasta-named chef in Pixar's "Ratatouille"

10 Dress

11 "Maybellene" singer

12 Sushi grains

13 Fraternal order founded in 1868

18 Prohibits

23 Ocasek of the Cars

25 Apple desktop

26 Thigh muscles, for short

27 Island group near Fiji

28 "Nothin' But the Taillights" singer

29 Diesel purchase

30 Francisco's farewell

31 Gangplank, essentially

32 Soothing stuff

33 Clydesdale or collie, for example

37 Quaint exclamation of emphasis

38 Scandinavian capital

41 Editor who popularized the phrase "Go West, young man"

44 Los Angeles neighborhood named for a fictional character

46 McKellen of "X-Men"

47 Whiskey order

49 The Lone Ranger's pal

50 Arizona tribe

51 Former Indiana senator Bayh

52 Harbor marker

54 Inquires

55 Heap

56 Spots

59 Lennon's love

60 Piece of luggage

Previous Puzzle's Solution

ARGO I NFOR ACTS

BEEN D I ANE RARE

E N E MY A L I E N B R OW

TOKYO SLUE I B I S

OKS

PESTO

S C HWE P P E S T E N D S

L OAN AR P BARD EM

U R L TWO P A I R A B E

GE F F EN I NN ATRA

SAGER TEDDYBEAR

AR I SE

SUR

F I LM PROD L EONE

I DL E L ENAHEADEY

NEON I SUZU SORE

KANT TASER TROD

The contest answer is (Conan) O'BRIEN. Each of the starred clues leads to two answers that differ by one letter (FAIL/FALL, BINDS/BANDS, DAZE/ DOZE, IBIS/ISIS, SAGER/SAFER). By using the alternatives in each case, the long answers would each contain the name of a regular host of "The Tonight Show" (ALLEN, PAAR, LENO, CARSON, FALLON). The missing host is O'BRIEN.

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