Today’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 Noisy fight

6 Urban transport 10 Autograph site 14 Pie chart lines 15 Sword handle 16 Palo —, California 17 “South Pacific”

Frenchman 18 Lotion ingredient 19 Circus animal 20 Still snoozing 21 Collection of

various items 23 Skeptic

25 Lulls

26 Airport code for

O’Hare

27 Sugar crop 29 Buddhism’s — Lama 32 Intersect

33 Frat letter 36 Exploiter 37 Deceptive

maneuver

38 Ball club 39 Codgers’ queries 40 Takes cover

41 Mild, as weather 42 More exposed 43 Rand of “Atlas

Shrugged”

44 Dirty politics 47 Crept

51 Lacking in decisiveness (hyph.)

54 Big blow

55 James of Jazz 56 Reed instrument 57 Promotion basis 58 Polite cough 59 Earthenware pot 60 Spout rhetoric 61 Prefix for “trillion” 62 Fawn or doe

63 Fall flower

DOWN

1 Loaf

2 Stallone tough guy 3 “Bye!”

4 Tusked critter

(2 wds.)

5 Whopper

6 Seat

7 Has a fever 8 Coalition

9 Most expensive 10 Thickened skin 11 Alternate name 12 Cherry center 13 Theater awards 21 Glove sz.

22 Back muscles 24 Half of “hexa-” 27 Bramble

28 Time periods 29 Rightful

30 Wood residue 31 French article 32 Yield by treaty 33 Scaleless fish 34 Woolen cap

35 A Little Woman 37 Stove fuel 38 Pretty songbirds 40 Vague

41 Casual farewell 42 Nassau’s island

group 43 Whichever 44 Nature’s coolant 45 Agile

46 Organic

compound

47 Get wool

from sheep 48 Jeweler’s unit 49 High society 50 Hinder 52 Competent 53 Shoe part or fish 57 Extinct bird

JULY 23-AUG. 22 VIRGO