CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Half a poverty-towealth metaphor 5 Shows affection, dog-style 10 Amt. rarely paid by a car buyer 14 Came down 15 Puget Sound, e.g. 16 Elevator name 17 Building emergency exit 19 Takes too much for oneself 20 Natural skill 21 Ark landing site: Abbr. 23 P&L part 25 Injure badly 26 Pay 29 Letters at the end of a proof 32 Fish with a net 35 German gent 36 Stalin-era prisons 38 Green acres 39 Some nest egg components 40 Only monosyllabic U.S. state 41 Weighty Brit. references 42 Tease 43 “Ars Poetica” poet 44 Craving 45 Time off 47 From S.F. to Vegas 48 Aquarium cutie 49 Math subj. 51 Palm starch 53 “Spring Symphony” composer 57 Be released 61 West Virginia resource 62 They’re holstered in old Westerns 64 Forget to include 65 Connoisseur 66 Provide the bank blueprints for, say 67 Even civil ones aren’t friendly 68 Bedding component 69 Flu fighters

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1 Finn conveyance 2 Et __: and others 3 “Atta __!” 4 Heinz Field NFL team 5 Grocery shoppers’ aids 6 Ltd. relative 7 Refuse to talk, with “up” 8 Didn’t give away 9 Iron output 10 Angora goat fabric 11 Severe weather warning 12 Latvian capital 13 Sibilant “Hey!” 18 First chimp in orbit 22 “Peanuts” word of frustration 24 With 31-Down, hoedown activities, and a hint to the circled letters 26 Pirouette 27 Elevated dwelling 28 “Sit, sit” 30 Sports bureau co-founder Al or Walter 31 See 24-Down 33 Golfer’s “pitching” club 34 Surgical cutter 36 Controversial crop alteration, for short 37 “Golly!” 41 Too tired to go further 43 Big wheel on a ship 46 Gymnast’s jumps 48 Prayer opener 50 Settles 52 Contract negotiator 53 Flat-bottomed garbage hauler 54 Deep sleep 55 Builder who lived to be 950 56 Central church part 58 Cartoonist Goldberg 59 The “E” in DOE: Abbr. 60 Spanish pronoun 63 Actress Wallace of “E.T.”