Crossword
ACROSS
1 Bird known for thievery, briefly 4 Soft-palate attachment 9 Not appropriate or suitable 14 Roth plan 15 Banking expert? 16 Workplace for some clowns 17 Nothing at all 18 Preparing for Thanksgiving
dinner? 20 Like an improperly hung
picture 22 Gin-flavoring fruit 23 Female inheritor 26 Professor’s job security 30 Nervous ___ (worrisome
person) 32 Plays a guitar 34 Clothing attachment 36 Yoga position 38 Agitation 39 Bonneville Flats locale 41 Wearing a hidden micro
phone 43 Poker payment 44 Investment firm T. ___ Price 45 Spectacular stars 47 “Vandal” suffix 48 Damaged 51 River through Wales and
England 53 Bobcats’ relatives 55 Backs out 58 Bit of this and a bit of that 60 Campaign manager? 61 Declining to draw 67 Become mature 68 Middle Eastern rice dish
(Var.) 69 Wear away 70 Ball prop 71 Barks sharply 72 Uses an acetylene torch 73 Botch something up
DOWN
1 Washington the blues legend 2 Questions do it 3 Rudely implying “forget it” 4 Abrupt increase 5 Seven on a grandfather
clock 6 Consultants’ center? 7 A great deal 8 See 20-Across 9 Like some requests 10 Silent assent 11 Hue and cry 12 Sermon seating 13 Tare factor 19 “Nay” and “uh-uh” 21 Before, poetically 24 Like a snail’s pace 25 Play a set with the band 27 ___ Major (“Big Bear”
constellation) 28 Biden, to Obama 29 Gives off 31 Common Market money 33 Part of a plant 34 Artificial grass 35 Coral island 37 Dissolve, as ties 40 Felled, as a small tree 42 Mr. Letterman 46 Government upper houses 49 Book of Moses 50 Place for cold cuts 52 U.S. flag color 54 Muscular “swine” anagram 56 Like beavers, it’s said 57 Look with a curled lip 59 Grimm villain 61 Undercover infiltrator 62 Bit of men’s formalwear 63 What a monopolist wants 64 Brief lie-down 65 D.C. dealmaker 66 Do simple math