Crossword

Across 1 Leatherworker’s tool 4 Wrath 7 Sauce often used in a Bloody Mary 14 Port-au-Prince resident 16 “Um-hmm, OK” 17 Call from a football referee 18 “Please! Anything but!” 19 Onion relative used in soups 20 Little troublemakers 22 Charged

particles 23 MRI orderers 24 Versatile bean 25 Texas site of a 1993 siege 27 Itsy-bitsy branch

29 Some DVD players 31 Caustic agent 34 Japan’s largest company by revenue 36 Crops used in making cigarettes 38 Ready, willing and ___ 39 Classic Eric Clapton song about unrequited love 41 Statutes 42 Loses one’s hair 44 Hold back, as a yawn 46 Moment, informally 47 World’s fair, eg 48 Wish 49 Like the water in a baptism 51 Get bent out of shape 53 ___ talks (lecture series) 56 Busy time at the drive-thru 58 Nay voter 59 It’s made up of DNA 60 Message that might end “RIP” 63 Invaded in large numbers 65 17-year insects 66 Standards by which things are measured 67 Follows, as a schedule 68 Monterrey Mrs 69 Consumed

Down

1 Get ___ of (grasp) 2 Communion tidbit 3 Vegetarianism

or bohemianism 4 Three on a grandfather clock 5 Source of faraway X-rays 6 Foe 7 Pantry

containers 8 Long, long ___ 9 Web crawler, eg 10 Web-filled room, often 11 Spot for a food fight 12 Jackie of Shanghai Knights

13 Honey Bunches of ___ 15 “Shameful!” 21 Really revel … or a hint to the words formed by the circled letters 24 Take a chair 25 Indiana/Illinois separator 26 White ___ sheet 28 Troubles 30 Kurtz’s rank in Apocalypse

Now: Abbr 32 Mournful cry 33 To be, to Tacitus 34 Little things that say “To” and “From” 35 Orchestra reed 37 Scissor cut 40 Swiss mount 43 ___ Paese (variety of cheese) 45 Spinning toy 50 Like beer that’s

not in a bottle 52 Things split in

fission 54 Make into

41-Across 55 Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree 56 Part bitten by a vampire 57 Mayberry boy 58 “I understand,” facetiously 59 Hound’s warning 61 Many online banners 62 Bit of butter 64 When a plane is due in, for short