CLUES ACROSS

1. Corpuscle count (abbr.) 4. Longtime sports columnist Cook

9. Tributary of the Rio Grande 14. Geological time

15. About ilium

16. Religion

17. Beverage holder

18. Its largest city is Fargo 20. Attaches muscle to a bone 22. Hindu queens

23. Sir __ Newton 24. Developments

28. British thermal unit

29. The Ocean State

30. Smell

31. Line

33. Seizure

37. Where vets are tended to 38. Goddess of the dawn 39. Pear-shaped fruit

41. Taxi

42. Where injured ballplayers end up

43. Preceding period 44. Uncovers

46. Smudge

49. Dad

50. Peyton’s little bro

51. Flawless 55. Judges

58. Expressed one’s displeasure

59. Immature

60. PBS interviewer

64. Hat

65. Cover with wood

66. Acts dejectedly

67. Perform

68. Where people store their tools

69. Sulfuric and citric are two

70. Long-term memory

CLUES DOWN

1. Muscles that control eyeball movement 2. Hillsides

3. The dried leaves of the hemp plant

4. Used to see far away things

5. Inventor Musk

6. We all need it

7. __ King Cole

8. Earthy pigment 9. Stringed instrument 10. A language of the Inuit 11. Shuttered

12. Cereal plant 13. Senior officer 19. Sportscaster Patrick 21. What day it is

24. Petrels with saw-toothed bills

25. Bumps in the road

26. Stars

27. Riding horses

31. Swamp plant

32. Type of bear

34. Style of cuisine

35. Home of the Flyers 36. Serious-mindedness 40. Velvet Underground album

41. Highly important

45. Winged

47. Cultured

48. Fastened

52. ___ Royce

53. Wreath

54. Excessive fluid accumulation in tissues 56. Synchronizes solar and lunar time

57. Ninth month

59. Deployed

60. Cycles per second 61. Expresses surprise 62. Mythological bird

63. Open payment initiative