CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Rubbed out 6 McNally’s partner
10 Big pile of shifting sand 14 ‘45 Physics Nobel winner Wolfgang 15 Endowed with wings 16 Announce with confidence 17 Nay sayers 18 Bare, desolate quality 20 Something to spend in Iasi 21 Grease monkey’s job 23 Remove from its box
24 Plum pudding tidbit 26 “Wow!” to Beaver Cleaver 27 Piece of cheap jewellery 29 Many Everest guides 33 Corroded 34 Common commandment word
35 Wee spiral creation 36 Went (for) 37 Centre of activity
38 Tine 40 Polynesian floral creation 41 Place 42 Inconsequential data 43 “Smiley’s People” author 46 Dorm buds 47 Sound dove-like 48 Distorted 49 Off-the-cuff skits 52 The “Chocolate Sandwich Cookie” 53 Gradually weaken
56 Unit of geographic distance 58 Asian part of Egypt 60 Binary system digits 61 Restaurant freebie 62 Port on the Gulf of Guinea 63 Guy in authority: his ___ 64 Corpse
65 West Yorkshire city
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1 Scorpio’s birthstone, maybe 2 Temple, poetically 3 Like most sci-fi 4 Famed clockmaker ___ Terry
5 Felt aversion 6 Flopsy or Mopsy 7 Woody of “Manhattan” 8 Not, to a Glaswegian 9 You might feel this in an old British castle 10 Karen Kain, e.g. 11 Middle layer of the eye 12 Loch that attracts many tourists 13 Ancient Gaelic 19 Leg’s midpoint 22 Not quite new 25 Couple of chips, often 27 Scandinavian folklore figure 28 Dough from the Delhi region 29 Cry convulsively 30 Rhode Island capital
31 Little orphan girl? 32 Heroic tales 34 Whacko
37 Tint subtlety 38 Words with a ring to them? 39 “The ___ of the Ancient Mariner” 41 “Once bitten, twice shy,” for one 42 Ripped apart 44 Not the way this answer goes 45 Sheraton rental 46 Very seldom 48 Sci-fi author’s creation 49 E. Orthodox artwork
50 It stops above the knee 51 Annapolis freshman 54 Elizabethan tale teller 55 Obstacle to fair treatment
57 As well 59 Berg’s material