CROSSWORD
This week’s theme is:
THE 1980S. Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are theme-related. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.
ACROSS
1. The lowest voice
6. Bottom line?
9. Composer Johann
13. Blood of the gods, Greek mythology
14. Mesozoic one
15. Joanna Gaines’ concern
16. Landowner
17. Rainbow, e.g.
18. ____ vs. pathos
19. *Intercontinental musical benefit in 1985
21. *Brat Pack director
23. Type of English course, for short
24. Not all
25. *John Mahoney to Ione Skye in “Say Anything...”
28. Former Speaker of the House
30. *“Purple Rain” performer
35. Amount of measurement
37. a.k.a. Red Planet
39. *Ed Koch, e.g.
40. *“Lifestyles of the ____ and Famous”
41. Winter driving hazard
43. Stag party guest
44. “To death” in France
46. Latticework wood strip
47. U.S.S.R plus countries of the Warsaw Pact, e.g.
48. As opposed to nurture
50. *“Star Trek II: The Wrath of ____”
52. *Rocker Adam
53. Bald eagle’s nest
55. Form of Anna
57. *“Out of ____,” movie
60. *Chernobyl disaster location
64. Diego Rivera creation, e.g.
65. Janitor’s tool
67. Free from
68. Golf bunkers
69. Knot-tying words
70. Out in the open
71. Giant kettles
72. Poetic “even”
73. Gradually deprives
DOWN
1. *His company launched Windows
2. Antioxidants-rich berry
3. Gangster’s blade
4. Julien of Stendhal’s “The Red and the Black”
5. Appoint a priest
6. Seat of intellect
7. “To ____ is human”
8. *Randy Savage, a.k.a. ____ Man
9. Short for Elizabeth
10. Dull pain
11. Avian messenger’s sounds
12. Store posting, for short
15. Get rid of bugs?
20. Agenda entries
22. Behind the plate
24. Like amateur's paint job?
25. *Duran ____
26. Carl Jung’s inner self
27. Monocot’s alternative
29. *It fell in Europe
31. Shakespeare’s metrical unit
32. African antelope
33. Part of gastrointestinal system
34. Raise a barn, e.g.
36. “Through” in text message
38. Comedian Rogan
42. Give gratitude
45. “Happy ____” by Dale Evans
49. Common Market initials
51. Like a Norwegian fjord
54. Chinese silk plant
56. Innocent
57. Radiant light
58. Short for brotherhood
59. *What Blondie does in “Rapture”
60. Second word in fairytale?
61. Brainchild
62. Fate of Norse mythology
63. Newts in terrestrial stage
64. *Music videos channel
66. “____ to Joy”