CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Artist’s creation 4 City in Nebraska 9 Start

14 Luau dish 15 Valentine’s day angel

16 Major world religion 17 Sprite

18 Compass point 19 Coke’s competitor 20 Take off your hat 22 Delaware (abbr.) 23Neither’s partner 25Scene 26Snacked 28Lower limb 30 Arabic word meaning “generous”

33 Polish city 36 Impair 37‘Love’ (French) 39 Fooled

41 V.P.’s boss

43 Lazy __ (turn table)

45 Wizened 46 Capital of Vietnam

48 Quick

50 North northwest 51 Leather making

need 53Praises 55South southwest 56Less than two 57 Tree

60 Note of debt 62Indiana (abbr.) 63 God 67Car paths

69 Fish

72 Fire remains 73 Scale

74 Light purple flower 76Espy

77 Reference 78Native Americans 79Time period

DOWN

1 Copied

2 Candy brand 3 Bicker

4 Halloween mo. 5 Greek “M”

6 Recess

7 Hellos

8 City in Yemen 9 Interpret movement

of speaker’s lips 10 Vane direction 11 Swiss mountains 12 Flower jar

13 Give off

21 Remote

22 Thinks 24Ancient

27 Beverage 29African antelope 30 Gold weight 31 Playing field 32Sorrow 33 Bunched fruit 34 Gave out money 35Adjusts space between characters 36 Miles per hour 38 America

40 Water 42Male children 44 Former U.S. president 47Refuses to yield 49 Degree of expertise in karate 52The other half of

Jima 54Headed 57 Writer Bombeck 58Spoil 59Disfigure 61 California university 62Doing nothing 64 Move carefully 65 Exploiter 66 Popular American

stadium

68 Cell stuff 70Lube

71 Enact 75Gold (abbr.)

Answers to yesterday’s puzzle