CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Addictions clinic candidate

5 Not quite right 10 One of Leave it to Beaver’s Cleavers

14 Trim off the excess

15 Sega’s famous hedgehog 16 Moistureless 17 Is left dangling, in a way

20 Properly pitched 21 Use the sofa 22 Utter aloud

23 Copy mindlessly 25 Tiddlywinks, basically

27 Dull, boring type 32 Where you could watch

“Mr. Dressup”

34 It’s guarded in soccer

35 Run out of steam 36 Grammy winner Whitney 38 Afternoon performance 41 “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” singer 42 Orca of the big screen 43 Aphids will eat it 44 Really easy 49 Unsurpassable 50 “All Seats Sold” theatre sign 51 Cardio tracing, for short

54 Female sheep 55 Completely devour 59 Underhanded, treacherous sort 64 Long story from Scandinavia

65 Bad kind of headache 66 Newsworthy periods

67 Stone often unearthed down under 68 Abhors

69 Huck Finn’s vessel

DOWN

1 As far as

2 Like firewood, usually 3 Phantom’s name

4 Change chairs 5 Aesop’s fable animal, often 6 “Pardonnez___!”

7 Hotel on a country lane 8 Protests, sixties style

9 Mica-like rock 10 Mandible locale

11 Writer of “Redemption” (‘95)

12 Fashion’s Ricci 13 Singer Nelson of “Rose Marie” (‘36)

18 Keyboard expert

19 Engrave with acid

24 Faint reverberation 25 Heck of a racket 26 Ramses I’s successor 27 Rower’s racing shell

28 Brethren

29 Belarus capital 30 Nitrogenous waste

31 Like the Mariana Trench

32 Work on jerky 33 Gaucho’s ball on a string

37 H.H. Munro’s pseudonym

38 West who said “Peel me a grape”

39 Rock concert musts

40 Mali desert wanderer

42 Place where Penguins play 45 Germ of a French invention

46 Fairly recent 47 Tapeworm genus

48 Lion, at times 51 Letters on a pump

52 Make stone tools

53 Noted “Lady” of rock

56 Where Rhett hung out in ‘39 57 Letters on a C-17 Globemaster 58 “Hey there!” 60 Word on an plane from

Seoul

61 Great leveller, briefly

62 Subtle colour variant

63 Swirly item before T