CROSSWORD
This week’s theme is:
WORLD SERIES.
Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are themerelated. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.
ACROSS
1. Capital near Casablanca
6. African National Congress
9. Sword handle
13. Do like a good citizen
14. Exclamation of suspicion
15. Echo sounder
16. Jewish holiday
17. Kimono sash
18. Blast from the past
19. *Commissioner's ____
21. *Yankees’ home
23. Little Mermaid’s domain
24. Command before “in”
25. U.K. broadcaster
28. Puerto ____
30. *Why 1994 World Series was canceled
35. Displeasure on one’s face
37. Barrels or casks
39. Desert wanderer's hope
40. Aries or Taurus, e.g.
41. “A Doll’s House” playwright
43. Grannies
44. Conquer, as in Everest
46. Overweight wrestler
47. Man Ray's art movement
48. “____ ____ Truckin’”
50. Laundry room fire hazard
52. One of Florida Keys, e.g.
53. Database command
55. ____-cha-cha
57. *Blue Jays’ home
61. Young domesticated ungulate
64. Cover story
65. Victoria’s Secret purchase
67. Free from
69. Locomotive hair
70. Big galoot
71. ____-____-la
72. The big one and little one, e.g.
73. Explosive
74. Red Sea nation
DOWN
1. Ice Cube's genre
2. Go up against
3. Ethiopian currency
4. Goodbye to amiga
5. Difficult for Beast to control
6. Sailor’s call
7. Nail a criminal
8. Trouser fabric
9. Like Roman Empire
10. ____-China
11. Animal house
12. “Star ____”
15. Site of a 1976 uprising, South Africa
20. Hispaniola republic
22. First responders
24. Give advice
25. *____ Sox Scandal, 1919
26. Round loaf, in Paris
27. Type of mandarin
29. *Overcame Curse of the Billy Goat
31. “Atlas Shrugged” author
32. Asimov or Mizrahi
33. Sorta
34. Bacon piece
36. “Where the Wild Things Are” rollick
38. Big rig
42. Time being
45. Herzegovina's partner
49. “As if!”
51. *Number of teams in MLB
54. R2-D2, e.g.
56. Flambé
57. Diplomat’s forte
58. Mixture or medley
59. Make someone angry
60. #17 Across, pl.
61. Synonym to #9 Across
62. Dutch cheese
63. Thespian’s part
66. *What Rickey Henderson did best?
68. *World Series ticketholder