Crossword

ACROSS

1 Flower part

6 Wait in the shadows 10 Open-handed blow 14 Empty-headed

15 Jacob’s womb mate 16 Sport on horseback 17 Early Sunday events, for many

20 African slitherer 21 Shakespearean king 22 College fire insurance? 23 Separate

25 Take five or ten

26 The late, great Aretha’s music

28 Letter opener? 32 Romantically lit 34 Center court nothing 35 Ho ___ Minh 38 Worker’s anticipatory time 42 Suffix with “velvet” 43 Actress Downey 44 Measures of loudness 45 Self-evident statements 48 It may be bulletproof 49 Opera performance 51 Little bits

53 Knot type 55 Quisling’s place 56 Disturb, as the balance 59 Plot of some horror films 62 Like a befuddled captain? 63 Bread to stuff

64 Barely beats

65 Bank in Israel

66 Cut it out

67 “It’s the ___ I can do”

DOWN

1 Cotton variety 2 Relative of 31-Down 3 Waterproofed canvas 4 Coulter or Curry

5 Don Juan’s rescuee 6 Official emissary 7 Map initials no more 8 Mrs. Garrett portrayer 9 Russell of Hollywood 10 Piano variety 11 Activity center 12 Storm warning

13 Sit for a shoot

18 Geek

19 Writers of poetry 24 Make slow progress 26 Shout over a dirty plate 27 Monster relative

29 First radio code words 30 Decay

31 Night before 33 Permission for a search 35 Prairie wagon

36 Tilling tools 37 Tuskegee, for one (Abbr.) 39 Part of us

40 “___ missing something?” 41 Astronomer’s sighting 45 Soldier’s helmet, slangy 46 Accident

47 Foot part

49 Get up

50 Raves angrily

52 Hand drier?

53 Chew persistently? 54 Wee barks

55 “Beetle Bailey” canine 57 Bad day for Caesar 58 Note-passer’s sound 60 Picky start to pick? 61 Poem form