crossword puzzle

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 23 Former spouse 24 Type of alcohol 27 Switzerland 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 42 Tub 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 74 City in Yemen 75 Prophet 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 10 Grand __ 11 Game official 12 Clod 13 Cagy 20 Native

Americans 21 Pound (abbr.) 22 You 23 Expire 24 Snakelike fish 25 Tennessee

(abbr.) 26 _ you! (attention

getter) 28 New England

state (abbr.) 29 Twitch 30 Pride 32 Carcass 34 MGM’s Lion 35 New Hampshire (abbr.) 37 An expression 39 Volume (abbr.) 41 Hippopotamus’ nickname 42 Choose 43 Scale note after sol 44 Adam’s wife 46 River (Spanish) 47 Compass point 49 IOU part 50 Roman six 52 Television set 54 Canadian prov. 55 Georgia (abbr.) 57 Type of Catholic 58 Slash 60 Travel guides 61 Sea eagle 62 Also 63 Basketball association 64 Extra-sensory perception 66 Poem of praise 67 Body of water 68 Explosive 71 Hectoliter (abbr.) 72 Iowa (abbr.) 73 Samarium (abbr.)