TODAY’S CROSSWORD

CLUES ACROSS 1. Emperor of Russia 5. Abounding in rocks 11. Increase in speed 14. Music app

15. Not nice

18. Tables (Span.)

19. Decomposes

21. __ student: learns healing

23. Nursemaid

24. Joke-teller

28. Male parent

29. Group of countries (abbr.)

30. ÒRambling RoseÓ actor Lukas

32. Midway between south and southwest

33. Cartoon Network (abbr.) 35. Peacock network

36. Principal ethnic group of China

39. Made of fermented honey and water

41. Exclamation of surprise 42. Evaluates skill or knowledge

44. Stage in ecological succession

46. Ethnic group of SE Asia 47. Not small

49. A cat is one

52. Broken piece

56. French president

58. ArtistÕs workroom 60. Ability to apply knowledge and skills

62. Visually stunning

63. Ancient region south of Dead Sea

CLUES DOWN

1. Used to pour beer

2. Con game

3. Skin disorder 4. Communists (slang) 5. Subjects to hostility

6. A major division of geological time

7. Hitting statistic (abbr.) 8. British thermal unit

9. Influential envoy to Woodrow Wilson

10. Fits on neck of animal 12. Fertile soil

13. Type of battery

16. Khoikhoin peoples 17. Consist of two parts 20. Small group of trees 22. Execute or perform 25. Millihenry

26. 007Õs creator

27. Associated with esoteric doctrine

29. Electronic countermeasures

31. Schenectady County Airport

34. No (Scottish)

36. Position of leadership 37. Statement

38. Raccoons belong to this genus

40. One who diagnoses 43. True mosses

45. Blood type

48. Albanian

50. Emergency response notification system

51. College reservists 53. Away from wind

54. Tough outer layer

55. Art __, around 1920 57. Born of

58. The greatest of all time 59. Georgia rockers

61. Natural logarithm