“THE MIDDLE”

ACROSS

1 Fill-in at the office

5 Happen

10 Daily intake

14 Met piece

15 Sprang forth

16 Certain citrus

17 Floral lady?

20 Get ready for a dubbing 21 Camden Yards ennead

22 Tense

25 Email folder

26 Short life story?

29 Lamenter’s sound

31 Baseball card stat

35 Industrious creature

36 “___ forgiven” (apology accepted) 38 Late bard Angelou

39 Director’s place

43 Mimicry expert

44 One drawing a bead 45 Chad-to-Egypt dir.

46 Barbershop bands

49 Capri currency, once

50 Few and ___ between

51 Taboo temptation 53 Blitzing linebacker’s coup 55 Make confused

58 Lifting device

62 Children’s game

65 Sky bear

66 Undo

67 Sets of mathematical points 68 More than crave 69 Mississippi formation 70 Starter with “ran”

DOWN

1 It may be plain or sweet 2 Moran of “Happy Days” 3 Country ___ (great distance) 4 Check recipient 5 Muttonhead

6 Old PC display part

7 West Coast salmon 8 Cybercafe patrons

9 Critique, as a film

10 Like many employees 11 Inspect figures? 12 Flamenco cheers 13 Tinkerer’s initials 18 Hemingway hero 19 Top-rated 23 Doubloon material

24 1945 meeting site

26 Rum cakes

27 Fumble-fingered

28 This, that or the ___

30 Nothing, in Old Rome

32 Thief, in Yiddish

33 Scavenging canine

34 Stun gun cousin

37 Tournament round

40 Like a good alibi

41 They’re delivered in shots 42 Christmas display

47 Rich man’s game

48 Deceived by flattery

52 Really bizarre

54 Cute bear

55 Auger

56 Other

57 Indian dish (Var.)

59 Golden calf, e.g.

60 Min. components

61 The Jimi Hendrix Experience, e.g. 62 Entertainment

63 A New York minute?

64 Pasture