Crossword

Across 1 Slow pitch 4 Traffic snarl (hyph.) 9 Become solid 12 Start of a famous boast 13 Make a speech 14 Work gang 16 Cabbie 17 Soda-bottle size 18 “The Piano” Oscar winner — Paquin 19 Giveaway 21 Rougher 23 Seize forcibly 25 Ripe old age 26 Narrow waterway 29 Stone pillar 31 Toes the line 32 Pool hall items 33 Limp-watch painter 37 Cheyenne hrs. 38 Most eager 41 Traipse about 42 Thrust-and-parry sword 44 Signify 45 Lickety-split 47 Light refractor 49 Dins 50 Lets in 53 Shore indentation 55 Complain 57 Expelling 61 Kind of helmet 62 Developed 64 Genesis hunter 65 Pierre’s head 66 Mysterious inscriptions 67 Completely absorbed 68 Go bad 69 Baker’s buy 70 PBS “Science Guy”

Down 1 Tragic monarch 2 Single time 3 Park amenity 4 Illinois city 5 Ram, in astrology 6 Wrestler’s pad 7 Arapaho foes 8 Stylishness 9 Flipped through 10 “Sesame Street” name 11 Doctrine 12 Channels 2-13 15 Cautious 20 Efficient 22 Sunflower yield 24 Tidal wave 26 Not all 27 Cough syrup meas. 28 Nerve network 30 Summer job seeker 32 Average grades 34 Seaweed derivative 35 Netlike fabric 36 “Et tu” time 39 Courier 40 Fables 43 Term of

abuse 46 Sewing aid 48 I-90 49 Clearest, as the sky 50 Client mtg. 51 Less moist 52 Slogan 54 Scent finders 56 Sincere 58 Indeed! (2 wds.) 59 Ponytail site 60 Abdomen 63 Out — — limb