CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Noisy bird

5 Plays a role

9 Hearth residue

14 __ beans

15 Radar screen image 16 Faithful

17 Trip details

19 Isle of __; tourist resort near Naples

20 Flea collar wearer

21 City fellow on a ranch 22 Woods

23 Chain of printing stores 24 Quarrel

26 Lends a hand

30 Try

35 VP Agnew

36 Deadly vipers

38 As __ as a boil

39 Heart or liver

40 Charge

41 Chef’s accessory

42 Season that begins today 43 Scorch

44 “Good for you!”

45 Gobi & Negev 47 Overindulgent parent, perhaps

49 Dobbin’s dinner 51 __ race; daily grind 52 Holiday drink

56 Head covering 58 __ Miss

61 Hay bundles 62 Reckless risk- taker 64 __ out; say before thinking about 65 Lawn trees 66 Computer tech 67 Canary food

68 Cozy home 69 Wildebeests

DOWN

1 Cut coupons 2 Ceremony

3 Eliminate

4 Pale

5 Sudden

6 Clothed

7 Gets fatigued

8 Secret agent

9 “Little Women” author 10 Zoom skyward 11 Excessive publicity

12 All __; listening

13 Skirt edge cut

18 “The Wizard of Menlo Park”

22 Pianist Domino 23 Pittsburgh athlete 25 Pedigree proofs

26 __ as the hills 27 Spender’s fling 28 Indications

29 Least risky

31 __ de corps; camaraderie

32 Fable’s lesson

33 Show to be true 34 Singing voice

37 Baltic or Black

41 “All __!”; train conductor’s cry

43 Male animal

46 Perches

48 Parish leader

50 Layered rock

52 Recedes

53 Strong wind

54 Adhesive

55 Bookish fellow

57 Gives a gun to 58 Microwave, e. g.

59 In __ of; as a substitute for

60 BPOE folks

62 Relaxing room

63 Cake ingredient