Crossword
ACROSS 1 Any old person, so to speak 6 French connections 9 Top 12 Super13 Mischievous 15 Cooper preceder 16 Party spreads 17 Like triple plays 18 Radio button 19 Chat room overseers, for short 20 Low camera perspective 22 Slept with 24 Command and control 25 Part of 52- Across 26 “Surely not me?” 27 Yank’s opposite 29 Budding 31 Band with the 1988 # 1 hit “Need You Tonight” 33 Eyesore 35 Currency that features architecture, not portraiture 36 “Birthday” or “mother’s maiden name,” e. g. 39 Bandleader who became a 1950s sitcom star 42 General ___ chicken 43 Desert royal 47 Capital in sight of Kilimanjaro 49 Percussive dance 51 Post- surgery place 52 Buster of rock 53 Mad rush 55 Judge of 1980s-’ 90s TV 57 “Officially …” 60 Leader Castro 61 Athletic shoe brand 62 ___ Field 63 What an endangered animal may get 65 Depend 66 Goddess in a chariot drawn by peacocks 67 ___ acid 68 Field ration, for short 69 Fifth on an eight- part scale 70 Cause of a stuffed- up nose
DOWN 1 Get ready to play 2 Make the scapegoat for 3 German Expressionist who was blacklisted by the Nazis 4 Title judge of a 1995 sci- fi film 5 The P. L. O.’ s Arafat 6 You can’t stop humming it 7 “East of Eden” family name 8 What a tech specialist might ask you to send 9 Constraint 10 Conflagration 11 Dunces 14 2003 OutKast hit that was # 1 for nine weeks 15 Dallas player, for short 21 German steel center 22 Fat meas. 23 Blue state majority, for short 28 Books that may depict dragons, unicorns and griffins
30 Reply to a bit of cleverness
32 Ship’s pole
34 Renaissance fair props
37 Mercury, in alchemy 38 “___ the light!”
39 Provider of underground entertainment?
40 Trampled
41 Latex- like glove material
44 Detail 45 Smallest NATO member by population
46 Sci- fi play of 1921 48 Tree with burs
50 Outcast
54 Hip again
56 “Star Wars” queen
58 Scotland’s Firth of ___
59 After- dinner drink 64 Peter out, as a trail