CROSSWORD

This week’s theme is: SINGERS AND

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

ACROSS

1. “____ of time”

6. Federal Communications Commission

9. Frosh, next year

13. “Vamos a la ____”

14. *Don McLean: “A long, long time ____...”

15. Par on a short golf hole

16. Whatsoever

17. Steadfast Soldier’s material

18. Art class support

19. Classical music composition, pl.

21. *One of his hits is a stadium favorite

23. *Paul McCartney’s 2013 album

24. Fat Man or Little Boy

25. Cul de ____

28. Prince of India

30. *“I Will Always Love You” creator

35. “Goodness gracious!”

37. *Chuck Berry’s “____ Over Beethoven”

39. Bird-made fertilizer

40. Beginner

41. Interior designer’s field

43. Come clean, with “up”

44. Meat jelly dish

46. Ad staple

47. What refugees do

48. *Best selling artist in 2000s in U.S.

50. Type of tide

52. Pig pen

53. #34 Down, alt. spelling

55. Bird word

57. *King of Pop

61. *Bruce Springsteen

65. “Farewell” from Emmanuel Macron

66. Bonanza find

68. Cone shaped dwelling

69. Dust-related allergy trigger, pl.

70. “Days of ____ Lives”

71. *Soul singersongwriter Hayes

72. Pavlova’s pas

73. X

74. Smallest units of life

DOWN

1. Pampering places

2. Chorus member

3. Indian flatbread

4. *He’s “Tangled Up in Blue”

5. Salt merchant

6. *“____” Domino

7. Computer-generated imagery

8. Urban dwelling

9. A fake in bed

10. Guesstimate phrase

11. Hammer part

12. Retained

15. Lipton package

20. Grammy, e.g.

22. Mischievous little rascal

24. Theater tier

25. Caterpillar hairs

26. Discrimination against seniors

27. Plural of carpus

29. *Piano man

31. 1600s neck wear

32. Chinese weight units

33. Beginning of illness

34. Offensively curious

36. “How you ____?”

38. Opera house box

42. House pest

45. Population count

49. Cow call

51. Kind of license

54. Condescending one

56. Falstaffian in body

57. Impromptu performances

58. Miners’ passage

59. Give a quote

60. *Neil Young: “____ on rockin’ in the free world”

61. Type of seabird

62. October stone

63. *“Kiss From a Rose” singer-songwriter

64. Abbreviated seconds

67. “The Murders in the ___ Morgue”