CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Indian semi-classical music genre 6 Bawl

9 Temple sights, often

14 “Athletic rub” targets

15 “I Ching” belief 16 Shred into pieces 17 Ceremony for Orville and Wilbur when they became pilots?

20 Broker’s suggestion, perhaps

21 Prop for Rembrandt 22 Near-miss utterance

23 Ethyl or acetyl ending

25 Coin often seen in Castile

27 The songs that are ideally composed for the buying public?

33 Usual overnight activity 34 Northern Italian port

36 Eggs, anatomically speaking 37 Attempt once again

40 Pan or Dionysus 41 Dune transport 44 Arctic floaters 47 Hazing routine for a quite conservative group? 50 Poetry on a grand scale

51 Item up for auction

52 Migraine portent 55 Ski-resort building

58 Classic decorative jug 62 Admonition to a noted architect to urge him to do his memoirs? 65 Be in concurrence 66 Actor DeLuise 67 Comes by honestly

68 Like a lot of marshes 69 Mmmm...

70 Sound like a old goat

DOWN

1 Shooting marbles

2 Bit of an old farmer’s field 3 Punxsutawney’s celebrity critter 4 Prostheses seen in pirate movies 5 Good wood for making baseball bats

6 Old Greek meeting place 7 Bumbling sorts 8 Loser of the flock 9 Gp. that took Dutch Schultz to trial

10 Throw away (with “of ”) 11 Colourful deep water game fish 12 Bobsled’s speedy cousin

13 Throw up, slangily

18 Wobble on the edge

19 Styptic compound 24 Georges Vezina’s old league, for short

26 Hallway runner, e.g.

27 Gun the motor 28 Mature insect 29 Precipitous start? 30 Sight-related 31 Piece of heavy metal 32 Swagman’s call 33 Hold up 35 Newspaper money makers 38 GE acquisition of ‘86

39 Screamed one’s fool head off 42 Learned little by little

43 Puppy sound 45 Big fuzzy ‘do, slangily

46 Word for word 48 Campanologists do it

49 Tristan’s beloved

52 Quite a way off

53 Try to convince 54 Nowhere near commonplace 56 Destiny

57 Work out areas 59 The Wallendas walk it

60 Noted Italian smoker

61 Lie down for a while 63 Ignition insert 64 Orb-weaver’s creation