DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Bookie’s concern 5 Wedge-shaped bones 10 Elite Eight org. 14 Bygone depilatory brand 15 Cantilevered window 16 Panhandler’s income 17 Start of a business journey 19 Watery defense, perhaps 20 Hustle 21 First name in bike stunts 23 Phased-out Secret Service weapon 24 Way to get from 17- to 39-Across 29 Doce meses 30 Roll of bills 31 Woolly mammal 32 Seasonal song ender 34 Proceed tediously 37 Like pals who go way back 39 Pinnacle of the journey 44 Three Gorges project 45 Wail 46 Former autocrat 47 Stat for Miguel Cabrera 49 Menu phrase 51 Letter before omega 52 Way to get from 39- to 63-Across 58 Bygone greeting 59 Site with digging 60 Witty remark 61 Word with work or play 63 End of the journey 68 Field of work 69 Food poisoning cause 70 Times past 71 Place of bliss 72 Summer Triangle star 73 WWI battle river
DOWN
1 Top 40 title for
Metallica or U2 2 Resting place 3 Overthrew 4 Las Vegas feature 5 Peruvian currency 6 Occur 7 Catlike carnivore 8 “Deathtrap” actor 9 Gene variant 10 ’60s hot spot 11 Data storage
medium 12 Render
speechless 13 On the move 18 Cry of pain 22 __ gravity 24 Wholesale quantity 25 Figurine material 26 Mesmerized 27 Wing it 28 Dutch earthenware city 33 High-tech greeting 35 Fertility clinic specimens 36 Big name in whisky 38 Naysayers 40 Darker-thanocher pigment 41 Cantina cooker 42 Threw 43 Pelee Island’s lake 48 Toughened 50 Top of the heap 52 Triangular part of a house 53 Roundish 54 Sierra __ 55 Pizza slice, say 56 Playwright Chekhov 57 Comfortably familiar 62 Understanding 64 Seine site 65 Corduroy feature 66 “Dream on, laddie” 67 Original Dungeons & Dragons co.