CROSSWORD

This week’s theme is:

POPULAR PASTIMES.

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

ACROSS

1. Smoothing tool

5. Fireplace mess

8. *Make a scarf, then a sweater

12. Nasal input

13. Crunched info

14. Like a snicker

15. Cautionary offering

16. *Caddie’s offering

17. Ringworm

18. *Current game

20. Bookkeeping entry

21. Express November sentiments

22. Big bang maker

23. Beach Boys: “Be True to Your ____”

26. Deducible

30. COI, OSS, SSU, CIG, ____

31. *Interlocking challenge

34. ____ of the game

35. Legal excuse

37. Acorn maker

38. Poet Nash

39. Spanish surrealist Joan

40. Tolkien’s “The Two ____”

42. Denotes financial loss

43. Kickbacks

45. Ducks with valued

down

47. Ornamental carp

48. Harvest helper

50. Chalupa alternative

52. Virginia Slim, e.g.

56. *What football and baseball have in common, pl.

57. “Put a lid ____ ____!”

58. *Hang out on the ocean or online

59. Lock horns

60. Eyeball

61. Hissy fit

62. Michael Myers’ move

63. “To Kill a Mockingbird” author

64. Thanksgiving tubers

DOWN

1. Campus drillers

2. Month before Nisan

3. Stag

4. Faster than allegro

5. Hammerin’ Hank

6. Delivery bird?

7. 3rd H in 4-H, sing.

8. *Needlecraft

9. *Half a round

10. Footnote word

11. *Afternoon's high

13. Hindu Festival of Lights

14. The Police lead singer

19. Japanese room divider

22. Parker's angst

23. Little rascal

24. Locomotive hair

25. Like Bigfoot

26. *You fly fish in it

27. Core of personnel

28. Independent African ruler

29. Gives a helping hand

32. Messy substances

33. Horror movie franchise

36. *Bibliophiles’ gettogether

38. Willow twig

40. *____ Chi

41. Make a connection

44. Opposite of tea bag

46. Black-tie

48. *Watch a season in a week, e.g.

49. Catlike

50. Queen of Hearts’ pastry

51. Aquatic plant

52. Fairly cold

53. Blackfin or Yellowfin

54. Barbershop request

55. Newts in terrestrial stage

56. Art degrees