CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Arm joints 7 Higher than, in old poems 10 Tent pole, basically

14 Archaic, contemptuous term of address 15 Amazement 16 Almost never seen

17 Made by an top flight performer? 19 Frigg’s husband (myth)

20 Tree bowyers used

21 Specific length of time

22 Freedom to choose

24 Felt sorry for

26 Wry humour 27 Marching band drum

30 Capacious artery 32 In a gigantic manner 35 Restaurant big shot 39 Modified

40 Milk sugar 42 Claudius I successor

43 Abode of one who shouldn’t throw stones? 45 Unflinching sort 47 Made a gaffe 48 Ancient port on the Tiber 51 Brooms made of twigs 54 Run-down urban area 56 Amazonian language 57 Debtors’ letters 60 Bread that goes with dal

61 Things dreamed up by paid hallucinators? 64 Maltese dough 65 2,000 pounds, in Texas

66 Prickly plant 67 Rogers of “Barrett’s Privateers”

68 View

69 English assignments DOWN 1 Spot

2 What Italians used to pay in 3 Perspiration location 4 Hobbit’s foe 5 Most toad-like, in a way 6 Smooth area of ice

7 Porridge, essentially 8 Cotswold mom

9 Perform again 10 Geometry class equipment 11 SiriusXM medium 12 Distinctive winter constellation 13 Leonard’s love from “The Big Bang Theory” 18 Shipping magnate Onassis

23 Peach stone 24 Placement arranged by a recognized expert? 25 Voodoo equipment? 27 Read the bar code

28 Intersection point

29 Shaped like a wing 31 Handmade Swedish rugs 33 Trumpet-shaped lily of the desert 34 Wing it

36 Lunch period, often

37 Basic Latin infinitive 38 Chicken’s dinner?

41 Shifts

44 Nail polish remover, basically

46 Make a doily, say 48 Shrek and his ilk 49 Yell

50 Hedron lead-in 52 Toyota RAV4, for one

53 Voice one’s view 55 Decides (to) 57 Dotted Greek vowel

58 One kind of child

59 Employs 62 Sturgeon’s production

63 Word with a mistaken apostrophe, often