CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Stiff as a board 6 Bridge positions 11 Venerable 14 Stopped lying? 15 Be part of the cast 16 Scrabble 3-pointer 17 Like many Canadian ships 18 Beauty pageant headpiece 19 Mai ___ cocktail 20 What some butlers might be good at, in a furtive way 23 Thief, basically 25 Small smartphone image 26 Impressive looking vase 27 Chief ___ George 28 Grease monkey’s holdings 31 Who’s Who paragraphs 33 It may be done at sea
34 Of huge importance 40 Semisweet cracker 41 Non-dairy bread spread 42 Glacial epochs 44 57’s Treaty of Rome creation, briefly 47 Response to a tennis smash 48 “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” singer Manfred 49 Capone’s weapons 52 Decides in advance 55 Bomber pilot of “Catch-22” 56 Luau location, perhaps
57 One type of coffee 60 South China, for one 61 Pyrenean ridge 62 Ten million Indian rupees 63 Right-angle joint 64 Branching-out points 65 Church council
DOWN
1 Competed for office 2 Levin who wrote “The Boys from Brazil”
3 Julie Payette 4 Violinist Stern who twice won a Grammy 5 Dug into
6 Has dinner watching TV 7 Amino and folic 8 Set forth 9 Neophyte (var.) 10 Zipper alternative 11 Mirage, usually 12 Try to intimidate 13 Condescends 21 Queen of Spain (1906-31) 22 Vagabond 23 Oil job 24 Dramatic opera segment, often 29 Subway of NYC 30 Stretch the truth 32 Leave high and dry 33 Smashing sound 35 Hideous old bat 36 “That’s all ___ wrote!” 37 Moved quickly 38 “Open 24 hours” sign, maybe 39 Loads and loads 42 Butt in 43 Study hall stall 44 TV production awards
45 Big name in British rock recording, once 46 Sceptical sorts 50 Deliver speeches 51 US President Ford, informally 53 Flashy style 54 Pacific island tuber
58 “Full,” on Broadway, briefly
59 “If only ___ listened!”