Crossword
ACROSS
1 Old storyteller 5 __ value 9 Worthless stuff 14 Eager
15 Muslim community leader
16 Time of one’s
life
17 Pops
20 Female bighorn 21 Ensign __ Crusher, Wil Wheaton’s“Star Trek: TNG”role 22 Tasteless gruel 23 Trio from Don Giovanni? 24 Flow slowly 26 Manage, with
“out” 27 Parachute attachment
31 Like “it,” grammatically 33 Pops
36 Note from the
office
37 Buddy
38 Mild Dutch
cheese
42 Pops 47 Hardened 50 Replace on the schedule
51 Poetic contraction 52 Christmas
pudding fruit 55 Take in the
groceries? 56 Seal-hunting
swimmer 58 Protective
charm 60 46-Down work 63 Pops
66 Mound
67 Great start? 68 Ceremonial
grandeur 69 Changed course,
nautically 70 Worshipped
image
71 Long shot, in
hoops lingo
DOWN
1 Sheep herder in a 1995 Best Picture nominee 2 Swear
3 Come to the
surface 4 EPA-banned
insecticide 5 Skillful handling 6 8th-century B.C. Hebrew prophet 7 Western burger
franchise __ Jr. 8 Bob Hope, often, for the Oscars ceremony
9 Turn red, say 10 Supreme singer? 11 Current source 12 One of four on a
par-4 13 Metal-cutting
machine 18 Proprietor 19 Nocturnal
scavenger 23 Represent in
cipher
25 Part of rpm 27 “That’s the guy!” 28 First-rate player 29 Sleep cycle 30 Drains of power 32 Early online
forum
34 Fellow
35 Spot on a screen 39 Hydroelectric
power source 40 Sound system
equipment 41 Came upon 43 Mountain in the Tour de France route
44 Subject of the biopic“I’m Not There” 45 Guided by a statement of faith
46 “The Poetry of earth is never dead”poet 47 Short and solid 48 Albania’s capital 49 Mortgage
provision 53 Taste sensation 54 Subtle, as a
shade
57 Willing partner 59 Toy company with theme parks 60 Reminder to take out the trash?
61 British title 62 Best Game, e.g. 64 Passé
65 Get off the
fence