CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Work on a stage 4 Carter’s Valley of the Kings discovery 7 Sew along the edge 10 Maker, in brief 13 Lad

14 What two bells signifies 15 Movie director Roth of “Hostel” 16 Maugham’s “Cakes and ___” 17 Advocate, as a cause 19 Grow abundantly 21 Idea 22 Formed an opinion

23 You, long ago 24 Caribou grouping 25 Copy cats? 28 Before dawn, say 30 Build up a hoard 34 Off the mark 36 Luxurious living 38 Big black bird 39 Safe harbour 41 State with certainty 42 Colleague

44 Gil Bellows’ forte 46 More than just debate 47 Plumbing or carpentry 49 Bruce of kung fu films

50 Like some negligees 52 Recline lazily 54 Spanish chef ’s speciality 57 Jimmy the door 61 Immortal 63 Motivate 64 Where to get peas

65 Sock’s hole location, often 66 Trapeze artist’s safeguard 67 Pursue romantically 1 68 Some of many 69 Then again 70 Concubine’s harem cubicle 71 Quaint place to spend the night

DOWN

Be someone’s henchman 2 Truncheon 3 Data entry goof 4 Make stronger, in a way

5 Pull out one’s dagger 6 Waver on the edge

7 Who the Beatles saw standing there 8 Avoid detection 9 Animal or vegetable alternative 10 Mutilate 11 Arctic Ocean hazard

12 No longer wkg. 18 Not in the office 20 Leonine cuisine

24 Tout to the max 25 Saudi holy city 26 Misjudgment 27 Incorrect 29 Tryst participant 31 Smithy’s fixture 32 Embarrassing public spat 33 Woollen fabric 35 To an unusual degree

37 Not decorated 40 Ostentatious 43 The way it really is 45 Glockenspiel relative 48 Colourless fellow

51 This often gets paddled 53 Once round the track

54 Bug in its formative stage 55 Shortly, to Shakespeare 56 This might cause a few ripples 58 New Zealand avian 59 Smith’s material 60 Broadway lights gas 62 Garner