CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Closer or In Touch

6 Skilled ones

11 Makes a choice 14 Rocket’s nose 15 Uncommon

16 Greeting word

18 Duluth native

20 Making plaits

22 Wear away

24 Do what mom says 25 Reverse and drive 26 Tonic’s partner

27 Male heirs

28 Mountain retreat 30 Shiny metal 31 Hill-building bugs 32 Also

33 Expert

34 Fuzzy fruit 35 Wing-shaped 36 Unsuitable

38 Just picked

39 Keyed instruments 41 Western movie, slangily

42 Emerson and Longfellow 43 Contraction

44 Church official

45 Aces and eights 46 Flunks out

47 Opera songs

48 Part of Hispaniola 49 Carried on the wind 50 Carpenter’s tool

52 Dock

53 Accumulated items 55 Seabird

56 Desktop machines 57 Soup containers 58 Plows the soil

59 “___ looking at you” 60 Arm exercises

61 Packs to the brim 62 Taunts and jibes from the crowd

63 Crates

64 Galoshes

65 Poke fun at

67 Crossed the goal line 69 Farm structures

70 River movements 72 Electrical measures 73 Assigned duties 74 Hamill, Wahlberg and Ruffalo

75 Negative prefix

76 Outer edges

77 Kids around

78 Short time

79 Jennifer Aniston hit: ___ the Millers 80 Raw material 81 Tennis pro Monica 82 Adjust a piano 83 Ambulance wail 84 Took out a loan 86 Truces

89 Made crow sounds 90 Slices off

91 Type of exam 92 Those people 93 Dedication

94 Most common

DOWN

1 Stately and grand 2 Corrosive compounds 3 District, area 4 Lodging place 5 Maiden name word 6 Devoured

7 Medical picture 8 Mightier than the sword

9 Flail about

10 Scorches

11 Ancient

12 Emotionally moving 13 Joaquin Phoenix movie

15 Buddy for Batman 17 Fleur-de-___

18 They control the marketplace

19 Serious

20 Sandy spot 21 Heart-problem pill 23 Chamber

25 Turf

28 Crazy escapade 29 State strongly 30 Borscht veggies 31 Rickman and Cumming 33 Dust specks 34 Forecasts

35 Bride’s walkway 37 Speed trap device 38 One’s specialty 39 Aches

40 Shoulder covers 42 Buckets

43 Sounds the alarm 44 Viking of note

45 Uses the telephone 46 Deceives

47 Orchard fruits 48 Coyote calls

49 Monthly payments 50 Concedes defeat 51 Pub offerings 53 Removed the center 54 Inclines

55 They form a gaggle 57 School movers 59 Detects a noise 60 Nitpicks

61 Utensils 62 Dried beef

63 Buying and selling 64 Foundations 65 Grassy surface 66 Said yes

68 City in Egypt 69 Potato type

70 Small eateries 71 Rubber road hugger

73 Ohio city

74 Really short skirts 76 Mechanical man 77 Gemstone

78 Uptight

79 Brandish a weapon

81 Scatter seed

82 Jog along

83 Glance over

85 Crash into 86 Everything

87 Small child 88 Savings plan