Crossword

ACROSS

1 Comments that sting 6 “Donna” or “vera” opening 11 Infant’s soft food 14 Become waterlogged 15 Continental cash 16 The whole shootin’ match 17 Littering thieves? 19 Lead- in for “Bravo” 20 Functioning currently 21 Worthy of holy veneration 23 Units of light flow 26 Nerve cells 27 Negative battery terminals 28 Card carrier 29 French vineyard 30 One of Satan’s minions 32 Feline nickname 35 Show of affection 37 Kind of typing 39 Metric weight 40 Type of grain 42 Trousers fold 44 Thanksgiving dinner request 45 Checked IDs 47 Core groups? 49 More saline 51 Catches on to 52 Up and at ‘ em 53 Cancel, as a liftoff 55 Bird in the “Arabian Nights” 56 Like delicious chow for a

chow? 61 Seek an answer 62 Not perfectly round 63 Piano specialist 64 Various guys 65 High times? 66 One for the books?

DOWN

1 Network on the telly 2 “Mode” lead- in 3 Become decayed 4 Mollycoddled 5 Astounded 6 Cribbage needs 7 ___ of thumb 8 CPA’s nest- egg suggestion 9 Food tidbit 10 Battery’s partner in crime? 11 Payments for some high

maintenance birds? 12 “Men in Black” creature 13 Walks laboriously 18 Autumn apple 22 Haunted house noise 23 Is deficient 24 Tear open, ironically 25 What the rodent match

making club wants? 26 John ___ Garner ( FDR’s

first veep) 28 Is willing to 31 One with a long, sad face 33 Censor’s insertion 34 Lotus position instruc

tors 36 They prevent mattress

sags 38 Rescuer’s shout 41 Used the fitting room 43 Castle features 46 From the beginning 48 Racket- stringer’s mate

rial, once 49 Silverman of comedy 50 Left one’s seat 53 Once more, country-

style? 54 Physiques, informally 57 Baby’s first word, some

times 58 Ms. Yoko 59 “... ___ the fields we go ...” 60 Empty, as a well