CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Adhesive used with wrapping paper
5 Quick haircut 9 Center of
activity 12 Frog sounds 14 Car with a
four-ring logo 15 “Eureka!” 16 Without
vegetation 17 Crowd doing a sudden performance 19 Location
20 Poker stake 22 Like lox, but not
locks
23 One with excellent powers of deduction? 25 Small branch 27 “Dancing Queen” singer, 2018 28 Relative of bedhead 32 Toyed with, as a cat would
35 Get together 37 Liu who played a Ken 38 Russian river 39 Split up 40 “You’re not wrong” 41 Took a tumble 42 High-fat diet 43 Quick inhalations 44 Forges a signature, maybe 46 Hot box? 48 Hawaiian goose
49 Not too often 52 Some spring flowers 55 Becomes compost 57 Songwriter Tori 59 Green flecks on a tart pie 61 Porch ___ (package thief) 63 Imitate 64 Dressing ingredient whose last letter stands for “oil”
65 “Do I ever!” 66 Writing implement 67 Reasonable 68 Russian ruler, formerly
DOWN
1 Characteristic 2 Blood line? 3 Better than all
the rest
4 Apt rhyme for
“squeak”
5 Only president to be a Supreme Court justice 6 Be in charge 7 Investigative journalist Tarbell 8 Square peg in a round hole 9 Scene stealers 10 “Yipes!” 11 Newborn 12 “The Price Is Right” network 13 Drum kit component 18 What perfectionists have, or the tops of 3-, 6- and 21-Down? 21 “Cheers” character played by George Wendt 24 Degree after an M.A.
26 Unit of power 29 Put on ___ (act superior)
30 “No need to wake me!” 31 Wants to forget, maybe
32 Magic dragon of kid’s music 33 Neighborhood 34 Stroll
36 Have a meal 39 Comparable (to) 43 Mousse alternative 45 Grabs 47 Scooter whose name is Italian for “wasp” 50 Poker variety, or a Nebraska city
51 Power structure? 52 Give a round of applause 53 Like a yellow banana 54 Foreboding sign 56 Central Plains people
58 Use a needle and thread 60 Actress Noblezada or Longoria 62 QB’s error