crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Highest quality 5 Widely known 10 Prune 14 Capital of Norway 15 Automobile 16 Type of car 17 On top 18 Bait 19 City in Yemen 20 Representative 21 Taxi passenger 22 Tender loving care 24 Neodymium (abbr.) 25 Office furniture 27 Neuter pronoun 28 Sneak a look 29 Make a mistake 30 Small town 31 Boxer Muhammad 34 Soviet Union 37 Speak indistinctly 39 African nation 41 Keeps away from 43 Bullfight cheer 44 Hawks 45 Force 46 Type of dressing 48 Money (German) 49 Tons 50 All right 52 Pressure unit 53 Winged 54 Mississippi (abbr.) 55 Divan 59 Medium frequency 61 Women’s partners 62 Cooking vessels 63 Bad (prefix) 64 As well as 66 Aqualung 68 Cleanse 69 Queen City of the South 70 Concede 71 Thousand (abbr.) 72 Vessel 73 Rancid 74 Marketplace

DOWN

1 Get on 2 ___ Lauder 3 Spills 4 Exceed 5 Choux pastries 6 Lawyer’s domain 7 Entice 8 Copy 9 Questioner 10 Clatter 11 Free of 12 Sign 13 Body of water 23 No Nonsense competitor 26 Adjusts space between characters 28 Mush up 30 Child’s enemy 31 Qualified 32 Lounge 33 Institution (abbr.) 34 Football league 35 Scat! 36 Business wear 38 Rounded part 40 Armor plate 42 Scarf 47 Northern part of state 51 Sunflower State 53 ‘Love’ (French) 54 American gasoline company 56 City in Nebraska 57 Partial to 58 Native Americans 59 Spice 60 Traveled by airplane 62 Cougar 65 Compass point 67 Central daylight time 68 Long-term memory