CROSSWORD
Across
1 MS-__
4 He’s Santa in
“Elf” 9 Fish-and-chips
fish
12 Andean stew
tubers 14 Geoffrey of
fashion
15 “You have a
point” 16 Hanukkah
moolah
17 Cut with sharp
teeth
18 Greasy spoon
sign
19 Board game
endings
21 Dudes
22 Sonora flora
23 Jungian inner
self
24 Anti-apartheid
org.
25 Actor Werner of
“Fahrenheit 451”
26 Element #50
27 More squalid
30 Scrape (out)
31 Crackerjack
32 Restricted
road area
33 High-_ _
image
34 Red variety of this puzzle’s circles
36 Larry _ _, former Phillies All-Star shortstop who was
2001 N.L. Manager of the Year
39 Meat-eating
aids
40 River to the
Baltic
44 “Invisible Cities” author Calvino
46 Copper
orgs.?
47 Happy, but not cheerful or upbeat?
48 Spoonful,
say
50 Was in the cards
51 Group with
rackets
53 Long _ _
54 Slightly
cracked 56 Glass-half-empty
sort
58 Computer giant
61 “Amen!”
62 Memorable
mission
63 Director Kazan
64 “I’m up for it!”
65 Sashimi
selection
66 Initial request for
an answer?
Down
1 Church
doctrines
2 Airline on “Lost”
3 With 9-Down, crispy go-with for this puzzle’s circles
4 Washboard _ _
5 Sailor’s skill
6 White variety of this puzzle’s circles
7 Doesn’t mumble 8 Press in a gym,
say
9 See 3-Down
10 Scene not meant
to be seen
11 Wish list items,
e.g.
13 Stern’s opposite
15 They’re often in
hot water
20 Bossa nova
ancestor
22 Chick of jazz 28 Family member
29 Tolkien’s
Quickbeam et al.
34 Adaptable ducks
35 “I get it now”
36 Two diamonds,
possibly
37 Ioway relative
38 Store whose first three letters come from its founder’s name
41 Ones “in distress”
42 Before, before
43 “Mayberry _ _”:
’60s sitcom
45 Body blow
reaction
47 Simpson
outburst
49 12-point type
50 El Pollo _ _: chain in the
U.S. and
Mexico
52 “The Clan of the Cave Bear” heroine
53 Hendrix at
Woodstock
54 Leatherwork
tool
55 Film noir coffee
57 “I’ll pass”
59 Tyler who played Arwen in the “Lord of the Rings” films
60 Catcher behind
the plate?