CROSSWORD

This week’s theme is: HALLOWEEN. Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are theme-related. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.

ACROSS

1. *One should accompany young Trick or Treaters

6. "Victoria's Secret" purchase

9. Marine eagle

13. "West Side Story" character

14. Distinctive quality

15. "Pulling my leg," e.g.

16. Venomous slitherer

17. Dashboard acronym

18. Big tops

19. *Like a house to avoid

21. *Halloween alternative to black

23. Cul de ____

24. Type of test

25. Sis' sibling

28. Coarse file

30. Centers, oldfashioned

35. Indian music

37. ____ gin

39. *Chocolate bar ingredient

40. Do as directed

41. Popular garden perennial

43. Jesus' first guests

44. African sorcery

46. Romanov ruler

47. Dashing style

48. Accident

50. Not mint

52. "C'____ la vie!"

53. 500 sheets

55. Nada

57. *"Night of the ____ Dead"

60. *Possible Halloween precursor

64. Winnie-the-Pooh's friend

65. High or low card

67. Food from heaven

68. Cupcake topper

69. Spring mo.

70. Bar by estoppel

71. 2 aspirin, e.g.

72. Gobbled up

73. Desert's lack, pl.

DOWN

1. Wet nurse

2. Dad to a baby

3. Pakistani language

4. Property claims

5. Reason to visit dental hygienist

6. Shakespeare, e.g.

7. *Gravestone wish

8. Tanks and such

9. Genesis garden

10. *2002 horror movie "The ____"

11. Sol or fa

12. Ambulance crew

15. Typeface letter that slants up and to the right

20. E-wallet's content

22. Ewe's mate

24. One playing dead

25. *Wicked ride

26. Torah teacher

27. S-shaped moldings

29. Coin opening

31. Top of the Capitol

32. 1:10,000 on a map, e.g.

33. Marcus Aurelius garb, pl.

34. *Honoree on day after Halloween

36. Same as #1 Down

38. Arrival times

42. Entertainment venue

45. Artsy Keith

49. Mont Blanc, e.g.

51. Mood lighting switch

54. Old World lizard

56. ____ Apso

57. Insane in Spain

58. Avian wader

59. Ivy stem

60. Bone-dry

61. Hostile to

62. Involved in a secret

63. Midday slumbers

64. Free

66. *Witch's familiar