CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Soft drink

4 Blaze residue

9 “There was an old woman who lived in a __...”

13 Small fruit pie

15 Sandbank

16 Summon a cab

17 Store away

18 Yuletide visitor

19 Skater’s oval

20 Cowardly

22 Annoys

23 Carry

24 Rush

26 Prickly plant

29 Raincoats

34 Funt or Ludden

35 Like umbrella weather 36 Feel miserable

37 Rude slob

38 Soviet labor camp

39 One of the martial arts 40 Trip stopover

41 Modify

42 West Point student 43 Unnecessary

45 Unser and Foyt

46 Motorists’ org.

47 Tongue color

48 As slippery __ eel 51 Fleeting; brief

56 Ladder step

57 Climbing plants

58 Reclines

60 Give a traffic ticket to 61 Chutzpah

62 __ up; absorb

63 Recipe verb 64 Overwhelming desire for more

65 “Love __ neighbor...”

DOWN

1 Half-qts.

2 Dobbin’s dinner

3 __ up; support from beneath or behind 4 Items listed in a will 5 Layered rock

6 Make sharp

7 Dines

8 Making rough wide cuts 9 Wild shrill cry

10 Barber’s focus

11 Pig’s comment

12 Forest animals

14 Social media service

21 Person, place or thing 25 Like dangerous winter roads

26 Home of logs

27 Without assistance 28 Duplicate

29 Business transactions 30 One not to be trusted 31 __ cologne; perfume 32 Passenger

33 Job openings

35 Grooves

38 Sparkling

39 Wild dogs 41 Montgomery’s state: abbr.

42 Isn’t able to

44 Hazard

45 Doused

47 Irritate

48 Rainbows

49 Clubs or hearts 50 Opposed to

52 Above

53 Wet spongy ground 54 Hilarious fellow 55 Slangy reply

59 Wild blue yonder