Crossword

Across

1 Spicy 5 Scottish highlander 9 Earth pigment 14 Great Lakes port 15 Rapunzel's pride 16 “Peachy!” 17 Makes a mistake 18 Camp Swampy bulldog 19 Famed viol. 20 Grumpy colleague 21 Lovers 23 Barterer 25 Lock brand 26 Kept secret 27 Enthralled 29 Frankenstein milieu 32 Wading bird 35 Winter Olympics event 36 Plump and juicy 37 Sign on a door 38 Thought on 39 Part of MIT 40 Cement component 41 Kinds 42 Workers' pay 43 Environmental prefix 44 Wildebeests 45 Lay down 46 Soap target 48 Twinkled 52 Inclined

56 Tax shelter 57 Thresholds 58 Flu symptom 59 Black mark 60 Strong alloy 61 Court order 62 Gas main 63 Running late 64 Hockey goals 65 Goes on the stage

Down

1 Long grasses 2 Helpful pointer 3 Approximately, in dates 4 Toady's answer 5 — down (ate) 6 Cafe customer 7 Diet

8 Slow gait 9 Beat an incumbent 10 Aluminum or copper 11 Moving rapidly 12 French state 13 Fishing poles 21 Make cloth 22 Overpromoted 24 Get on the horn 27 Twice-baked breads 28 Seasons 30 Basilica area 31 Gambles 32 Donut feature 33 Grand in scale 34 Home improver 35 Dilly

36 Lariat 38 After-dinner candies 42 Pesky plant 44 Horrible 45 Rains ice 47 Laid off 48 Astronaut's garb (hyph.) 49 Imitate 50 Pour out lava 51 Goes with 52 Furtive whisper

53 Beatles' meter maid 54 One of a chess player's octet 55 Fairy-tale villain 59 Exercise place