CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 It’s at the head of the staff

5 1/32 of a pint, for short

9 Smears on messily

14 “So?”

15 Seed’s outer covering

16 Emcee’s chore

17 Big theft of element number 42?

20 Big seller on Valentines Day in Napoli

21 Long shots at the track

22 Brass, for one 25 In hiding: lying ___ 27 Pitchfork-shaped Greek letter 30 Found sadly demised while trying to break Guinness records? 33 Redblacks home (abbr.)

34 Albeit, briefly 35 Applies gold leaf 36 Moors’ relatives 39 Botanic name for the lily of the valley shrub 41 Clever clique 42 Burial receptacle 43 Minute Caribbean isle 45 Result of an agreement not to use the doubling cube, say?

50 “Don’t get ___ ideas.” 51 Sounds from parade horses 52 Gives a sharp pull

53 Flamboyant passion

54 Old pressure unit 56 Period that deciduous trees go through every year? 63 French farewell 64 King who called for his fiddlers three

65 Ancient ship of Greek legend 66 Went a few rounds

67 Poetic tributes 68 Hold up aid? DOWN 1 Small Welsh mountain basin 2 Common Papal name

3 Pipe fitter’s joint 4 Trout fishing tool 5 Young squirts 6 Crosswise measurements 7 Tax form need, briefly

8 Some necklines do it

9 Spew out 10 Numbats will eat them

11 Traditional peyote user 12 Feminist’s combustible

13 Para follower? 18 Aussie lad

19 Three old wise guys 22 Big flap

23 Inducing forgetfulness 24 Dormant state 26 Cry of discovery 27 Louisiana state bird

28 Inept bungler 29 “___ alive. ___ alive!”

31 Ordinal of unknown magnitude

32 Cone bearing tree

37 Solicit bids

38 Eye catching graphic made entirely of words 39 Temple design with frontal columns

40 Quaint hotel 41 Popular exec.’s deg. 42 One who often yells foul

44 Word of agreement 46 Resembling wings

47 Where Grace was princess

48 Funeral fire 49 Winter hat attachment 53 Sabre’s cousin 55 Assayers analyze them

56 Thing picked up at the bar, if you’re lucky 57 Capital of old Japan 58 Intermingle 59 Diviner’s gizmo 60 Goof

61 Something to give it

62 Vain fellow