Crossword

ACROSS

1 Half a poverty-towealth metaphor 5 Shows affection, dog-style

10 Amt. rarely paid by a car buyer 14 Came down 15 Puget Sound, e.g. 16 Elevator name 17 Building emergency exit 19 Takes too much for oneself 20 Natural skill

21 Ark landing site: Abbr.

23 P&L part

25 Injure badly

26 Pay

29 Letters at the end of a proof

32 Fish with a net 35 German gent 36 Stalin-era prisons 38 Green acres 39 Some nest egg components 40 Only monosyllabic

U.S. state 41 Weighty Brit. references

42 Tease

43 “Ars Poetica” poet

44 Craving

45 Time off

47 From S.F. to

Vegas 48 Aquarium cutie 49 Math subj.

51 Palm starch 53 “Spring Symphony” composer 57 Be released

61 West Virginia resource

62 They’re holstered in old Westerns 64 Forget to include 65 Connoisseur 66 Provide the bank blueprints for, say 67 Even civil ones

aren’t friendly 68 Bedding

component 69 Flu fighters

DOWN

1 Finn conveyance

2 Et __: and others 3 “Atta __!” 4 Heinz Field NFL

team

5 Grocery

shoppers’ aids 6 Ltd. relative 7 Refuse to talk,

with “up” 8 Didn’t give away 9 Iron output 10 Angora goat fabric

11 Severe weather warning

12 Latvian capital

13 Sibilant “Hey!” 18 First chimp in orbit

22 “Peanuts” word of frustration 24 With 31-Down, hoedown activities, and a hint to the circled letters

26 Pirouette 27 Elevated dwelling

28 “Sit, sit”

30 Sports bureau co-founder Al or Walter

31 See 24-Down 33 Golfer’s “pitching” club

34 Surgical cutter 36 Controversial crop alteration, for short

37 “Golly!”

41 Too tired to go further

43 Big wheel on a ship 46 Gymnast’s

jumps

48 Prayer opener 50 Settles 52 Contract negotiator 53 Flat-bottomed garbage hauler 54 Deep sleep 55 Builder who lived to be 950 56 Central church part

58 Cartoonist Goldberg

59 The “E” in DOE: Abbr.

60 Spanish pronoun

63 Actress Wallace of “E.T.”