CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Beaten instrument 5 Arafat’s successor 10 Groove in a wooden board 14 Isle off the west of Scotland 15 Spiny-finned food fish 16 One way out 17 Don’t delete, editorially 18 John and Yoko asked to give it a chance 19 Bygone copper coin 20 Laudatory poem about a new driver that’s been around for more than a decade? 23 Poor man’s fuel, once 24 Apply pesticide 25 Quilting-making get-together 27 Umbrella stiffener 29 1/48 cup (abbr.) 30 Alternative to a Reuben, perhaps 33 Orbital segments 35 The O’Hara spead 37 In worse health 39 Picked up a terrible virus from your cryptographer? 42 Heart failure symptom, maybe 43 Monk’s quarters 44 Shepherds and boxers 45 Showed the way 46 Deg. for a CEO hopeful 48 Pixie’s cousin 50 Iowa’s ___ Moines 51 Shoot out 53 “The Wind in the Willows” hero 55 Takes a commanding lead when running for the cattle prod? 60 Cover with blacktop 61 Solar phenomenon 62 James II’s daughter 63 eBay item’s condition, often 64 Bug’s adversary 65 Rug rats 66 Very nimble 67 Traditional conical abode 68 Estrada of “CHiPs”

DOWN

1 Talk trash about 2 Something to eat with dal 3 Out of the blue 4 Dull surface finish 5 Desire for food 6 “___ there, done that!” 7 Sounds like an ass 8 Copacetic 9 Sheep farmer’s tools 10 Hunter’s lure 11 Cut from the payroll 12 Chow down in style 13 Redblacks’ town, briefly 21 A muff will warm it 22 Fast 25 Item to put lox on 26 Get worn down 28 Gondolier’s traditional song 30 Transfusion clinic participant 31 Pigeon’s perch, often 32 Curly lock of hair 34 Cartoondom’s Yosemite ___ 36 Cereal grain 38 Watch type introduced in ‘72 40 Silent movie coquettes 41 Complete 47 “Help yourself” meal 49 Enemy 51 Really squalid 52 Hobo 54 Chalcedony variety 55 Sudden short breath. 56 Finito 57 Sequoia, e.g. 58 Con man? 59 Classroom furniture 60 Dead cells, basically