CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Couches 6 Certain equine 9 Beseeches 14 Ramble on pointlessly 15 “Roots” actor
Vereen 16 English Channel
city 17 Old Houston
player 18 Toothpaste
box letters 19 Base of a number system 20 Some requests for payments 23 “Glengarry ___
Ross” 24 Vatican
emissary 25 Rap sheet
letters 28 Market
closing? 29 Help! 30 Big name in
electronics 32 Meteorologists
study them 34 Persia, once 35 It could be issued from the White House 41 In ___ of (replacing) 42 HRs and TDs, e.g. 43 Open, as a seat belt 47 “Not sure yet,” on a sched. 48 Hallucinogenic drug 51 Barely make, as a living (with “out”) 52 Hard to believe 54 Cato’s eight 55 Things delivered by PA systems 58 Claw on a hawk 60 Opposite of “yeah” 61 The spleen, for one 62 Mythical goddess of peace 63 French summer 64 Nighttime noise 65 Giver-upper 66 ___ Plaines 67 Pert
DOWN
1 Dishwashing tool 2 Baltimore player 3 Hesitate 4 Had a homecooked meal 5 Feudal flunky 6 Calculator ancestors 7 Type of car or chair 8 Grab violently 9 Pull out of the ground 10 Reddish-brown, as a horse 11 Phrase for a large churchyard 12 Manning of the NFL 13 Questionnaire datum 21 How some sardines are packed 22 Follower of Richard or “Rocky” 26 Genghis or Kubla 27 “Is not,” wrongly 29 Jamaican music genre 31 Sets one’s sights? 32 Lewd material 33 Ave. crossers 35 Smoky, hot passage 36 Porcine grunt 37 Glued shut again 38 Flat briefcases 39 Spreadsheet creation 40 Traveler’s request (abbr.) 44 Feature of a sled 45 “Should I take that as ___?” 46 Did some lopping 48 Characteristic languages 49 Indian lutes 50 Pixar partner 53 Maternally related 54 “High Plains Drifter” actress Bloom 56 “And Then There Were ___” 57 Tree trunk growth 58 Part of O-O-O 59 “___ you OK?”