CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Haircuts with layers 6 Mountain climber’s tool 11 Outlaw 14 Indiana basketball player 15 Curie who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes 16 Ginger ___ 17 *Botanical specimen whose fronds resemble a flightless bird’s plumes 19 Speak lovingly 20 Part of a grocery list 21 Caviar 22 Like some wine barrels 24 Prince William’s mum, familiarly 26 Desires 28 Never-ending staircase lithographer 31 Rickman who portrayed Snape 34 *Botanical specimen that large African animals eat 37 Moving about 39 First ___ kit 40 Tyler who voices Lana on “Archer” 41 *Botanical specimen that attracts fluttering insects 44 Border on 45 Goofed (up) 46 Extreme joy 48 Top-notch mark? 53 Actress Josie or Sophia 55 Elizabethan ___ (1558-1603) 57 Prefix for “space” 58 Drake University’s URL ending 59 *Botanical specimen whose offshoots resemble arachnids 63 “___ a grip!” 64 Typed “untied” instead of “united,” say 65 Spooky 66 Opposite of NNW 67 Most prom attendees 68 Biblical beasts
DOWN
1 Become inedible 2 “___ la vista!” 3 Played a role 4 Like unwashed hands, perhaps 5 ___ Lanka 6 “As I see it,” in texts 7 Cozy eatery 8 Poetic homophone of 9-Down 9 It may be hot or fresh 10 Noble gas in flash tubes 11 \ 12 Medicinal succulent 13 Noble gas in signs 18 Dessert similar to a cobbler 23 Classic game consoles 25 Green tractor maker 26 Frosty place? 27 Frida Kahlo’s specialty 29 Rubs raw 30 Flags down, as a cab 32 Campfire remnant 33 Government intel grp. 34 Caesar’s supposed question 35 Diminutive 36 Visually tasteless 37 Lawyers’ grp. 38 Long sandwich, for short 42 Hotel units: Abbr.
43 Joy of “The View” 47 Map within a map 49 Loses color 50 Listens to 51 Bert’s roommate 52 F and G, but not H 53 Body parts that the starred answers’ starts have increasing numbers of 54 Tributes in verse 55 Biblical garden 56 Cabernet and Merlot 60 Lead-in to “season” 61 Wrath 62 Insomnia source in a fairy tale