CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Vaquero’s weapon 5 Brits’ flophouse bed 9 Ghana metropolis of 4 million plus 14 Prayer finale, often

15 “Size ___ everything.” 16 Little Bighorn winners 17 Syne preceder 18 Veer off 19 Otto’s cartoon owner 20 Intense questioning session 23 Tract of grassland 24 Biathlon equipment

25 US pharmaceuticals agcy. 28 Collection of survey results, perhaps 32 Lenin’s successor 34 Gilbert & Sullivan’s heroic princess 35 Flora whose extracts are in many lotions 38 Nerdy type 39 Quit 43 Canvasback’s cousin 44 School in Lyon 45 Japan or Canton suffix 46 Highly decorated 49 Expels from the country 51 Solidified 52 “Whale” that’s really a dolphin 55 Compete 56 First year college student 62 Serviced your chain saw 64 Basic blood quantity 65 Norm’s wife on “Cheers” 66 Swimming stroke 67 Utah’s official flower 68 Turnip, for one 69 Try the soup 70 Russian aristocrat, once 71 Ceases

DOWN

1 Romantic Indonesian island 2 Salalah’s land 3 Loaned 4 Actress Lansbury 5 British PM twice succeeded by Gladstone

6 It was Christiana until 1925 7 Nestles 8 T-bone, e.g. 9 Help out 10 “Bye,” in Bologna 11 Summer-long, intense blue bloom

12 Rya, e.g.

13 Cut from the payroll 21 Cut a board again

22 “My country, ___ of thee...” 26 Most desperate 27 Shackles’ location 28 Signs of repetition 29 Stick

30 Some pretty big spiders 31 Sound quality 33 Enormous fuss 36 Catchall abbr. 37 Wearing horseshoes 40 Rio greeting 41 Grain storage structure 42 Luke warm 47 Walk unsteadily 48 Quaint bard’s palindrome 50 Artist’s life work 53 Earth’s outer layer 54 Endora’s Moorhead 57 Frog’s kin 58 Capital on the Baltic Sea 59 Billion years, to geologists 60 Walked all over 61 Has supper 62 Scorpio’s birth mo., sometimes 63 Writer of Porgy’s lyrics