Crossword
ACROSS
1 Go straight to the
top? 5 Crawling
carpenters 9 Made into a
bundle 14 Sport for the
supersized 15 “Unfaithful”
co-star Richard 16 Join forces 17 Overindulge (someone) at birthday time 20 Warble 21 Figuratively 22 Circular power
tool 24 Tarzan player
Ron 25 Tetra- times two 29 Set one’s sights
on, with “at” 31 “So long!” 34 Last-ditch gridiron
pass 36 Periodic pay 39 Nabisco snack
brand 40 And so on: Abbr. 42 Avant-garde jazzman who named himself after an Egyptian god 43 Country Style Steak Fries maker 45 “I’m Moving On”
country singer 47 Pindar work 48 Charlotte __:
creamy dessert 50 Road incline 51 Permit 52 Crumpets
companion 54 Head honcho 59 Starbucks flavor 64 Not up to par ... or, aptly, what this puzzle’s circled letters are 66 Send (to) for a
second opinion 67 Steal, for slate:
Abbr. 68 Lemon-like 69 Like ogres 70 “So Sick” R&B
singer 71 Ironically, they
might be even
DOWN
1 Sibilant “Yo!” 2 River to the Rhine 3 Mine, in Metz 4 Pained cry 5 Dept. concerned with rural development 6 Reuters, for one 7 Folk’s
Kingston __ 8 Couch kin 9 Mobster Siegel 10 Had __: imbibed
modestly 11 Longest sentence 12 Bluesy James 13 Work at it 18 Trains over the
street 19 Ship storage
areas 23 Designation for batteries, bonds or baseball teams 25 “I can’t believe it!” 26 Egyptian capital 27 Like many floors 28 Kate’s TV
sidekick 30 Nessie and Bigfoot, by most accounts 31 Get red in the
face 32 New Age
composer 33 Flynn of film 35 Irate 37 Question 38 Two-masted boat 41 Robinson
Crusoe, notably 44 “__ we all?” 46 Society page word 49 Pioneer Day
celebrant 51 King or Bird 53 Physicians’ org. 54 Go sour 55 Draft designation xwordeditor@aol.com 56 Some email
attachments 57 Root often
pickled 58 Aloha State bird 60 Germany’s von
Bismarck 61 African lake in
four countries 62 Cattle collection 63 Music and dance,
e.g. 65 Freudian focus