CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Baseball’s short hit 5 American gasoline

company

10 Experts 14 Intelligence 15 Goddess

16 Not fake

17 Pop

18 Questionable

19 Cryptically

23Former spouse

24Type of alcohol

27Switzerland city

31 Vane direction

33 Loafing

36 Alien’s spaceship

38 Resound

39 Vermont (abbr.)

40 10 liters (abbr. for dekaliter)

41 Santa’s laugh

42Tub spread

45 Boxer Muhammad

48 Psychologist with

the dogs

51 Possessive pronoun

53 Airplane part

56 Turn out

58 Appliance brand

59 Hollow grass

61 Gas burner

65 More than anyone else

69 Loots

70 Big boats

74City in Yemen 75Prophet who built

the ark 76‘Plasma’ variant 77 Spruce

DOWN

1 Pen brand

2 Spanish “one”

3 Football league

4 Sycophant

5 Mendelevium (abbr.)

6 Squeal

7 Barium (abbr.)

8 Fashionable

9 Drag 10Grand __

11 Game official

12 Clod

13 Cagy

20 Native Americans

21 Pound (abbr.)

22You

23Expire

24Snakelike fish 25Tennessee (abbr.) 26__ you! (attention

getter)

28New England state

(abbr.)

29Twitch

30 Pride

32Carcass

34 MGM’s Lion

35 New Hampshire (abbr.)

37An expression

39 Volume (abbr.)

41 Hippopotamus’

nickname

42Choose

43 Scale note after sol

44 Adam’s wife

46 River (Spanish)

47Compass point

49 IOU part

50 Roman six

52Television set

54 Canadian prov.

55Georgia (abbr.)

57Type of Catholic

58 Slash

60 Travel guides

61 Sea eagle

62Also

63 Basketball association

64 Extra-sensory

perception

66 Poem of praise

67Body of water 68 Explosive

71 Hectoliter (abbr.)

72 Iowa (abbr.) 73Samarium (abbr.)