CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ranch hand’s garb 6 Bigheadedness 9 Tennis or rugby 14 Hunter’s dog 16 Heron, often 17 Mesh closely 18 Sundance Festival film 19 Reach the breaking point 20 Social category 21 Sure thing, slangily 22 Belem’s state in Brazil 23 Electrical unit 26 Big yellow taxi, say 27 Boutonniere bloom 30 Come as you ___ 32 Heart of the matter 34 Green light 37 Government’s share of the transaction 38 Heavy metal band constituent 39 Hit the books 41 Become fervid 43 Easy to chew food 44 ___fix denture adhesive 45 Common lunar feature

46 Fr. holy woman 47 Freshly created 48 Lima, for one 49 US tax collector 51 The Platters’ “___ You” 53 Gunfighter’s call 57 Hummingbirds do it 59 Astonishment 61 Icelandic tale 62 Tie the knot 63 Go from one side to the other 65 Violinist’s need 66 Understanding 67 Ontario’s

___ Canal 68 Get hitched 69 Virtual Canadian coins

DOWN

1 How some people like bacon 2 Reddish hair dye 3 Floral essence 4 Like a Boy Scout 5 Edward Elgar’s title 6 Change over time 7 Geico’s longtime spokescritter 8 Where Mork grerw up 9 Guzzle from the bottle 10 Lose one’s cool 11 Black sheep, maybe

12 Pay back 13 Willow, for one 15 Samuel’s Biblical mentor

24 Far from punctual 25 Zombie-like state 28 Shallot’s big cousin 29 Two-channel sound system 31 Actor in a crowd scene 33 Barley brew 34 Cleopatra’s reptiles 35 Office stock supplier 36 Oversee 40 Every day morning phenomenon 42 Tall and dark companion 48 Slogan

50 ___ stone (fixed) 52 Enormous 54 Sacred Native bird 55 Insurance seller 56 Witches’ “beauty marks” 57 John of “The Elephant Man” 58 Use U-Haul, e.g. 60 LA.-Houston dir. 63 Rookery sound 64 Champagne qualifier