CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Drywall supporter

5 It’s longer than a mini

9 One of Alcott’s “Little Women” 13 Something straight and narrow

14 Stratum 15 Rubaiyat’s Khayyam 16 “Dancing Queen” singers 17 In a crawling position

19 C.P.A.’s, often 21 Hair highlight 22 Heretofore

23 ABC’s early morning prog. 26 Attentive to the max

29 Like an old pocket watch 31 Work out a solution

34 Noted British gallery 36 Neighbour of Jor.

37 High class

Indian lady

38 Item made for Reagan’s 1981 inauguration 43 Negev natives 44 Company hatchet man 45 “Prior to” prefix 46 Harper Valley org. of song 48 Titter

53 Common furniture in a sixties pad 56 Increase your monthly house payments, maybe

59 Sewell who wrote “Black Beauty”

60 Where Tabriz is 61 Blew it

62 Old hair removal brand

63 Motown’s

Marvin

64 Lang successor? 65 Picked hairdo

DOWN

1 Big chunks of concrete 2 Where lamas live 3 Prepare to throw open the doors 4 Noted Irish architect Sir Thomas ___ 5 Something to read down at the cafe 6 Solzhenitsyn’s ___ Denisovich 7 The Mississippi has a huge one 8 Criminal 9 Disapproving audience noises 10 Aussie’s rhea look-alike

11 Sticky, black goop

12 “48 ___”:

‘82 movie 14 Visually examine

18 Fern appendage 20 Have empathy 23 Discover bit by bit

24 Sound from the dungeons, maybe

25 Vedic god of fire 27 Musician Collins of “Genesis”

28 Elon Musk’s company 30 Steinbeck’s Ms Bacon of “East of Eden” 31 Trombone slide 32 Prophetic sort 33 Big African antelope 34 Common baking soda meas.

35 Like winged ants 39 Practical joker 40 Executors’ concerns 41 Implored 42 Neurologist

Dr. Foreman of “House”

47 Ready to blow 49 The Gold Coast, since 1957 50 Yiddish crook 51 Lusitania, for one

52 Odist’s Muse 53 Treat for the dog, say

54 Country dance site

55 “A Death in the Family” creator 56 18 wheeler

57 The post war ___

58 Mom’s Day month