CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Ancient calculators 6 Therapeutic spots 10 Bubble-filled chocolate bar 14 Slip into 15 Steinbeck’s “___ of Eden” 16 Choice piece of crab
17 Not active at all 18 Instrument with wooden bars 20 Vehicle that drives down the slopes in winter 22 Puts on a second coat 23 Use a whetstone 24 Symphonic “tuning fork” 26 Lamb cut 27 Hannibal crossed them 30 Popular ski centre in the US Rockies 33 Rural
36 This fly’s south of the Sahara 38 Words that terminate a single life 39 Saddler’s punch 40 Took a chair 41 Shakespeare’s Puck, e.g. 42 Biological classes 44 Bath’s county 46 Uppity type 47 Ship’s rope for climbing aloft 49 US Most Wanted List compiler 51 Self-centred 52 Kermit, notably 56 Slaughterhouse 59 Make fizzy 61 Enact laws 63 Sew loosely 64 Hatfield-Mccoy affair 65 Agatha and Dashiell’s contemporary 66 Chomps down 67 Rice of “The Vampire Chronicles” 68 Open hearing, in law 69 Trapper’s device
DOWN
1 Stupidly imitative 2 Swindler’s operation 3 Enjoyed home cooking 4 “Gentleman Jim”, the boxing heavyweight 5 Almost obsessed by 6 Ultrasound deduction 7 Baseball team’s highest expense 8 Slumbering 9 “Enough, already!”
10 Pull off 11 Stretches out 12 Long, angry discourse
13 Has debts 19 Good friend 21 1899-1902 South African event 25 Canaanite deity 28 Often picturesque frosty covering 29 Triathloner’s attribute 31 Spot in the Orkneys 32 Remaining 33 Swine
34 Gulf east of Djibouti
35 “I’ll be darned!” 37 World War II weapon 40 Baritone’s big moments, perhaps 43 Prime time for clam diggers 44 Scare the heck out of 45 Abstain
48 It’s for the birds 50 “___ Now or Never” 53 Reggae fan, perhaps 54 Playful river critter
55 Silly birds, supposedly 56 Italy’s ___ Romeo
57 “It’s ___ a while.” 58 Butter’s alternative 60 Dies down
62 ‘Til time’s end, poetically