“‘A’ FEW PHRASES”

ACROSS

1 Big hunk of beef 5 Vatican-related

10 Ganges access 14 Tree-trunk imperfection 15 Caribbean getaway 16 Family crest inscription 17 Classic yuletide tale 20 Claw

21 Puts in like piles 22 Jamaican liquors 25 Satan’s domain

26 Boo-hoo

29 “Peanuts” outburst 31 Servicemember in the navy 35 Summer zodiac sign

36 “All My Children” vixen 38 Dublin’s isle

39 Jitters

43 Apportion (with “out”) 44 Blackthorn fruits

45 Fish eggs

46 Unstressed vowel sounds 49 Nerdy type

50 “Guinness Book” suffix 51 Part of a champagne flute 53 Work like a drudge 55 Natural light shows 58 Mother or mum 62 Tiny part of the whole 65 Carpenter’s groove 66 “One more time!” 67 Armory supply, briefly 68 Oil container

69 Like human ears 70 Give temporary use of

DOWN

1 32-card game

2 Ancient Andean

3 Author Roald

4 Baseball scorecard notation 5 Faux ___

6 SoHo loft output

7 Fast feline

8 Bring shame to

9 Scottish misses

10 More knotted, as trees 11 Male red deer

12 “Famous” cookie maven 13 ___ Aviv

18 Accustomed (to) 19 Concession stand selection 23 Crumbly soil

24 Porcine digs 26 Cherrystone and longneck 27 Pear-shaped fiddle 28 Adolescence

30 Read the riot act to 32 French 101 book? 33 Nabisco cookies 34 Change, as a clock 37 Happening

40 Reporter’s milieu 41 Stout’s detective Wolfe 42 Type of pie

47 On the peak of

48 Soap opera

52 Chutney fruit

54 Train making all stops 55 Jewish month

56 Hindi relative

57 Knife thrust

59 Office message 60 58-Across soundalike 61 Auth. unknown 62 Determine the sum of 63 Take off in a hurry

64 Last word in movies?