CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Earthbound Australians 5 Political alliance 9 Sparkly showiness 14 Barn roof accessory 15 Tropical, hipswinging dance 16 Calgary Stampede, basically 17 Dangerous silo occupant

18 Fan club’s hero 19 Something atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

20 One type of fence 22 Imperial edict from Moscow 23 Dressmaker’s form, essentially 24 Yawl’s relative 26 Old eggs? 29 Provide new digs for 33 Illness

38 NHL defenseman trophy 39 Primordial sludge

40 Birds that trot across the pampas 42 Least extreme tide 43 Remain a bit longer 45 Mount Olympus’ region

47 Part of the rowing crew 49 Flurry of activity 50 Roofing pieces 52 It may be in a stew 57 Vigilant 60 Light metal found in England 63 Smallish kind of whale 64 Flatten a building 65 Disappeared 66 Fer-de-Lance, e.g. 67 Extreme malevolence 68 Periphery 69 Looked long and hard 70 Take a breather 71 Wolfish look DOWN 1 Remove from an apartment 2 Manly 3 Open the portcullis 4 Highway haulers 5 Golfer Mickelson 6 Bavarian luxury car maker 7 Dull, hollow sound 8 Gasbag 9 Funny Marx? 10 Disagree 11 Mental flash 12 Afternoon get-togethers 13 Distinctive area 21 Midday 25 Tightened up 27 One of the equinoxes 28 Fallout from a firework display, maybe 30 Fertilizer compound 31 Upper layer of the Earth’s crust 32 Detect visually 33 Just okay 34 Smallest bit 35 Winter Palace resident, once (var.) 36 Typist’s tap 37 Matched collection 41 Cry when you hit on a solution 44 Left out 46 One-man performances 48 Less distant 51 Harriet Tubman was one 53 Satan, originally 54 Two-element semiconductor 55 Thrust forward 56 Big man in Oman (var.) 57 Tail end of a dog from Lhasa? 58 Big kind of cod 59 Intnl. airline now 70 years old 61 Small arms from Israel 62 Turn to mush