CROSSWORD

This week’s theme is:

WINTER FUN. Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are theme-related. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News. ACROSS

1. *e.g. "A Winter's Tale" by Mark Helprin

6. Bag in Paris

9. *Cold-weather lip trouble

13. Speak one's mind

14. "What?"

15. What phoenix did

16. Used a lot in sports

17. ____ of Aquarius

18. Misrepresent

19. *Troika ride

21. *Has two eyes made of coal

23. Beluga yield

24. Found in a wall

25. Reggae precursor

28. Whiskey without water

30. Mother of Calcutta

35. What little kittens did with their mittens

37. Computer operating system

39. Ascetic holy Hindu

40. Hippocrates' promise

41. Chemically induced waves, pl.

43. Good obtained illegally

44. Garment fold

46. Sandwich alternative

47. Northern freshwater fish

48. No, they don't really crawl in one's ear

50. Substance abuser

52. Neither

53. Type of tide

55. Jamie ____ Curtis

57. *Popular cold weather fabric

61. *Desired winter destination, pl.

64. Don McLean: "Drove my chevy to the ____"

65. *Elf on the Shelf, e.g.

67. *Remove its furniture in winter?

69. Like a Harvard building?

70. Call to Bo-peep

71. Painter Degas

72. Mrs. Lincoln's maiden name

73. Weary traveler's destination

74. Lofty homes

DOWN

1. Us, in Mexico

2. Prefers

3. Tiny bottle

4. "C'mon in!"

5. Wound

6. Persian king

7. Precedes Sep.

8. Maiden's "hope" storage

9. Captain's team

10. Islet in a river

11. Half-way around the world

12. Part of a hammer

15. Residences

20. "Faster!" to a horse

22. *Roast a chest____ over an open fire

24. Cavalryman's foot holder

25. #61 Across, sing.

26. Bear Down Under

27. In the Asteraceae family

29. Again

31. Wood file

32. Buzz Aldrin's first name

33. Plumed military headdress

34. *Ice Angler's drill

36. *Warm winter day occurrence

38. *Winter Holiday, for short

42. Abracadabra, e.g.

45. Preserved in a can

49. "Fancy that!"

51. Go back into business

54. Cover story

56. Horace's poem

57. Dart

58. Prefix in levorotary

59. Like a zealous fan

60. Pauper's permanent state

61. Bridge

62. Units of work

63. Cut and run

66. *Gingerbread creation

68. 60 mins., pl.