CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Use an ax

5 Domineering

10 Unfair slant

14 Sixty minutes

15 Make amends

16 __ along; move slowly

17 Perceptive

19 Tubular pasta

20 “__ Piper picked a...”

21 Bird of prey

23 Smallest two-digit number

24 Recipe direction

26 __ from; in addition to 28 Endured

31 Singer Franklin

34 As fit __ fiddle

35 Quiet plodding horse

37 Poison ivy symptom 40 Buddies

42 Sit on a perch

43 __ up; amass

44 In a __; instantly

45 Parents and grandparents

47 TV’s “Days of __ Lives”

48 Interfere

50 Merited

52 Window covering

54 French mother

55 Egg producer

56 Narrow boat

60 Blazing

64 Actor Griffith

66 Nonstop

68 Part of the leg

69 No longer on your plate

70 Staircase piece

71 Corncobs

72 Coast

73 Simple

DOWN

1 Poker token

2 Make sharper

3 Eject; evict

4 Man of the cloth

5 Word from Scrooge 6 Badger’s cousin

7 Couch

8 Comfy

9 Holler

10 Show __; entertainment industry

11 Ceremony for a new club member

12 Performed

13 Glow

18 Avarice

22 Have dinner

25 Venerated

27 Send a parcel

28 Drinks like Fido

29 Wise __ owl

30 Lizard-like amphibian

31 Home

32 __ up; rebel

33 Main course

36 __ weevil; cotton pest

38 Board game

39 Group of cattle

41 Drove fast

46 Plastic wrap

49 Nov.’s follower

51 Turn down

52 Tremble

53 Reddish dye

54 Slightly more than a yard

57 High cards

58 Ark builder

59 Hold __; save

61 Smidgen

62 Regrets

63 Catch sight of

65 Affirmative

67 Ending for Max or Joseph