CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Called the shots 4 Stinging blow 8 Swashbuckler’s weapon 14 “Hail! “to Caesar 15 Large, spiralhorned antelope 16 Empower 17 Voyageur snack 19 Knight’s rescuee 20 Supermarket employee 21 “Quoted verbatim” 23 Parlophone competitor, once 24 Sprouted like a weed 26 Devilish

29 Bar mitzvah or baptism 32 Blunderbuss loading aid 34 Light and airy 37 Like better 41 Blackjack necessity 42 Jade plants, scientifically 44 Old five franc coin 45 Monkey often used in research 47 German expressway 49 Swear (to) 51 Amorous Greek deity 52 Sandpiper cousins

55 Big gulp 58 Evidence of smoking 59 Edge of a shift? 61 Modifies a law 65 Diamond shapes, geometrically 68 Cairo native 70 Good-natured 71 Emily and Charlotte’s sister 72 Dubrovnik’s state, for short 73 Vague warning 74 Shoot-out at ten paces 75 Royal Botanical Gardens locale

DOWN

1 Arctic Circle native 2 Rarely, if ___ 3 Half (pref.) 4 Many a winter Olympian 5 Ill-gotten gains 6 US orthodontist’s org.

7 Bits of wordplay 8 It’s rolled out for celebs 9 Santa ___, Calif. 10 Shriver of ‘80s women’s doubles 11 Noted Norwegian playwright 12 Perfumery resin 13 Ancient piece of bone 18 Father of Confederation D’Arcy — 22 Belief (suff.) 25 Swathe in bandages 27 Trunk 28 Home-made fruit drink 29 Back end 30 Poison ivy symptom 31 Quaker’s pronoun 33 “The Jackal”, e.g. 35 Navigator’s decision 36 Of times past 38 Cold sweat cause 39 Stairwell sound effect 40 Scampers away

43 Trail mix component 46 Abe Vigoda’s Godfather role 48 Give birth to. 50 Malt or Chin ending 52 Something waiting in the hold

53 Aide that will put you in your place 54 Wine valley of France 56 The Great Gretzky 57 Force into action 60 Fermented honey drink 62 Bad name for a barber 63 Boldly attempt 64 Cocaine, slangily 66 1049, to the Romans 67 Popular univ. degrees 69 Beast from Botswana