Thinking caps “STOP SIGN”

ACROSS

1 Cookie unit

6 Dull

11 Sound of distress

14 Places to grow?

15 Evoking goose bumps

16 Avian runner down under

17 Buy backs

19 Damage

20 “___ Love You” (Beatles tune) 21 Full array of golf clubs

22 Pen necessity

23 Augury

27 Tuscany, once

29 Color

30 Machine with a shuttle

32 Join, as oxen

33 “___ be my pleasure!”

34 Aviator

36 Some unsubstantiated sightings 39 Like fine Burgundy

41 Born first

43 Ailing

44 Ore sources

46 Artist’s prop

48 Agile deer

49 Italian desserts 51 52 53 56 58 59 60 61 62 68 69 70 71 72 73 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Bonkers

Compass direction (Abbr.) Bookbinder’s fabric

Old-style second-person verb “Anytown, ___”

Reason for a shot in the arm? “___ it or lose it”

“Tsk!”

Vanished

Before, in palindromes

Like a ram, but not a Ram

One who walks down the aisle? Harvest goddess

Large, colorful parrot

Insincere

DOWN

Prickly seed casing (Var.) Broke a fast

Red Sox legend Williams Approached stealthily Masculine reflexive

Reno action

Certain state souvenir Stopped lying?

Excellent grade Demolish

Not quite out to pasture 12 Many an imam

13 Concealing Muslim dress 18 Corn flour

23 Holder for a potion 24 Expenditures

25 Commits anew

26 Linen fabric

28 Four-stringed instruments, briefly

Symbol of bravery

Go to seed again?

Cathedral displays

Airborne targets

Adorn

Make up for a loss

State of oppression

Botch

Digestion aid

Broad-winged hawk

Seize by force

Orchestra offering

Cur’s curb

Santa ___, Calif.

Pulpit-facing seat

Density symbol, in mechanics Dusk, to poets

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