CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 John, Paul and George: Abbr.
4 He-Man’s twin sister
9 Up, in baseball
14 H+ or Cl15 Silent actors?
16 Care deeply about
17 *Line about 23 degrees south of the equator (look down after reading letter 9)
20 Island such as Bikini
21 “Bingo!”
22 ___ King Cole
23 Fix
25 Treated maliciously
27 Atlas enlargement
29 Most recent
32 *Flexible fee format (... letter 2)
36 Surfing need
37 Photo
38 Out ___ limb
39 Superman enemy Luthor
40 Citrus drink suffixes
42 *Numbers’ place (... letter 7)
46 World capital with many onion domes
48 Bright aquarium fish
49 Kind of bean that’s shaped like an organ
51 Fighting fleet
55 One may have pink feathers
57 Org. that seizes kilos
58 More fitting
59 Without warning, and where the starred answers get tricky
64 Squirrels climb them
65 Circumvent
66 Tiebreaker periods, briefly
67 “It ___ been easy”
68 No longer in
69 Scared of public speaking, perhaps
DOWN
1 “Norwegian Wood” instrument
2 Cake with a hazelnut variety
3 Be a busybody
4 Showing pleasure
5 Fruit punch brand
6 Moody music genre
7 Call, as a game 8 Songwriters’ rights org.
9 Do the Wright thing?
10 Tic-toe connector
11 Pale beer
12 Halo, e.g. 13 Shelter around a tenant?
18 Everyday 19 German wine valley
24 Blog feed letters 25 Wait-listed passenger
26 “Gross!”
28 Subj. concerned with biodiversity
30 Reindeer in “Frozen”
31 Passage for a sermon
32 Junk email
33 ___ deck (place for a pool)
34 Footwear for Alina Zagitova or Michelle Kwan
35 Like the White Rabbit
41 “Comp” or “poli” follower
42 Confessed, with “up”
43 Pilot’s guess, briefly 44 Attacked from the air
45 Florida city by a bay
47 Most curious
50 Lop-___ rabbit
52 A Musketeer
53 Life partner?
54 Pretentiously creative
55 Relaxing soak
56 Other, in Ecuador
60 Chick’s mother
61 Egg cells
62 Touch on the back
63 Praiseful poem