CROSSWORD

This week’s theme is:

THANKSGIVING.

Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are themerelated. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.

ACROSS

1. Newton or Stern

6. Hot springs resort

9. Gene Simmons' band

13. Cuban dance

14. Anticipated outcome

15. Type of rug

16. Shiny suit

17. Red area between Saudi Arabia and Egypt?

18. Telephone company

19. *Which Thursday is Thanksgiving?

21. *Gathering

23. To boot

24. India location

25. Deli order

28. Walked on

30. Authoritative declaration

35. Milano moolah

37. Swear, not curse

39. Kappa Alpha ____

40. Battery fluid

41. Long-necked wading bird

43. Biz bigwig

44. Chirp

46. Gauche or Droite, in Paris

47. On one’s guard

48. Take for ransom

50. Gingrich of politics

52. Female sib

53. Hoodlum

55. Comic cry

57. *Early Thanksgiving celebrant

61. *It's on the final Thanksgiving Parade float

64. Convex molding

65. High or low

67. "Roots" author

69. *Post-Thanksgiving song

70. Yoga accessory

71. Accustom

72. “The Man Who ____ Too Much”

73. Possessive of it

74. Opposite of digest

DOWN

1. Roth ____

2. Turf alternative

3. Shots, for short

4. Roughly

5. Root vegetable

6. “I flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and threw up the ____”

7. *Not cake

8. Wet nurses

9. Capital of Ukraine

10. Capri, e.g.

11. Hollow baglike structures

12. Vegas bandit

15. Gibraltar or Bering

20. Synagogue read

22. Willie Nelson’s “Farm ____”

24. Like fans

25. *Like Friday after Thanksgiving

26. Chinese fruit

27. “____-and-true”

29. *____-eating

31. "The ____" talk show

32. Astros’ homeland

33. Wombs

34. *Parade organizer

36. Port in Yemen

38. Created a rug?

42. Handrail post

45. “Snow ____,” band

49. Between Sigma and Epsilon

51. Tittering laugh sound

54. Savory taste sensation

56. Asian wild ass

57. From chicken pox

58. He was terrible

59. Elders’ teachings

60. Neon effect

61. Exercise groups

62. Adhesive

63. Not his

66. *The oldest balloon animal

68. Hitherto