CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Smallest chess piece 5 Intl. alliance with a phonetic alphabet

9 Test for fit

14 Where to find Columbus 15 Surrounded by

16 Like a wolfman

17 Made it possible (for)

20 Bit of campaign ugliness 21 In a jittery way

22 Food storage cover

24 Big pic from a small neg. 25 Reason for “Fahrenheit 451” fires

31 Yr.'s dozen

34 Smoothie berry

35 Pet store cry

36 Resell exorbitantly, as tickets

38 Iowa crop

39 Extreme fear

41 First website page

42 Last Greek letter

44 Lucy's sitcom partner 45 Neighborhood

46 Stark in “Game of Thrones”

47 Achieved desired results 50 Math basics: Abbr. 51 Tweeter's titter

52 White ursine critter 58 Hand prettifiers

62 It's designed to elicit a certain answer ... or where the end of 17-, 25and 47-Across may be found

64 Dickens' Drood

65 Garage goop

66 Opponent

67 Hit __: ran into trouble 68 Wise, as advice 69 Twice-monthly 7-Down

DOWN

1 Seasoned senators, say 2 “If I may say something ... ”

3 Edith, to Archie

4 Teacher's “Shh!”

5 “Uh-uh”

6 Confirmation from the congregation

7 Ocean phenomenon 8 Reason for a diaper change

9 Big crowds

10 Phantom's rival, in “The Phantom of the Opera” 11 Pet store cries

12 Baseball's Hershiser

13 Big Apple address letters 18 Chicago paper, for short 19 Toaster __

23 Dilapidated joint 25 Breakfast partner of 55-Down

26 “__, all ye faithful ... ” 27 Rowed

28 Verify, as totals

29 Octet plus one

30 “If only”

31 New Zealand native 32 Early Mesoamerican 33 “Bark, Bowser!”

37 Phony

40 Sky over Paris

43 Loving and devoted, as fans

48 Library vol. ID

49 Gobbling guys? 50 Gymnast Comaneci 52 Ardent request 53 Voluminous syn. and etym. sources

54 Mowed expanse

55 See 25-Down

56 Water color

57 Ladder step

59 29-Down count

60 Kappa preceder 61 Barbershop sound 63 Barely make, with “out”