CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Noisy bird
5 Plays a role
9 Hearth residue
14 __ beans
15 Radar screen image 16 Faithful
17 Trip details
19 Isle of __; tourist resort near Naples
20 Flea collar wearer
21 City fellow on a ranch 22 Woods
23 Chain of printing stores 24 Quarrel
26 Lends a hand
30 Try
35 VP Agnew
36 Deadly vipers
38 As __ as a boil
39 Heart or liver
40 Charge
41 Chef’s accessory
42 Season that begins today 43 Scorch
44 “Good for you!”
45 Gobi & Negev 47 Overindulgent parent, perhaps
49 Dobbin’s dinner 51 __ race; daily grind 52 Holiday drink
56 Head covering 58 __ Miss
61 Hay bundles 62 Reckless risk- taker 64 __ out; say before thinking about 65 Lawn trees 66 Computer tech 67 Canary food
68 Cozy home 69 Wildebeests
DOWN
1 Cut coupons 2 Ceremony
3 Eliminate
4 Pale
5 Sudden
6 Clothed
7 Gets fatigued
8 Secret agent
9 “Little Women” author 10 Zoom skyward 11 Excessive publicity
12 All __; listening
13 Skirt edge cut
18 “The Wizard of Menlo Park”
22 Pianist Domino 23 Pittsburgh athlete 25 Pedigree proofs
26 __ as the hills 27 Spender’s fling 28 Indications
29 Least risky
31 __ de corps; camaraderie
32 Fable’s lesson
33 Show to be true 34 Singing voice
37 Baltic or Black
41 “All __!”; train conductor’s cry
43 Male animal
46 Perches
48 Parish leader
50 Layered rock
52 Recedes
53 Strong wind
54 Adhesive
55 Bookish fellow
57 Gives a gun to 58 Microwave, e.g.
59 In __ of; as a substitute for
60 BPOE folks
62 Relaxing room
63 Cake ingredient