Today’s Crossword:
CLUES ACROSS
1. Unpleasant substance
5. Oil group
10. One-time Yankees rookie sensation
14. Ireland
15. Less easily found
16. Southeast Nigeria people
17. Bridgeline Digital stock designation
18. Play loudly
19. Elegantly fashionable
20. Open sore
22. Frozen water
23. Sacred Islamic site
24. “Kokomo” rockers
27. Follows sigma
30. Cease to exist
31. Cool
32. Doctors’ group
35. Less attractive
37. Swiss river
38. Greek sophist
39. Grandmothers
40. Afflict
41. Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast
42. Actress __ Rachel Wood
43. Not bright
44. Western Asia peninsula
45. Baseball speedster Gordon
46. Golf score
47. Transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm
48. Diego, Francisco, Anselmo
49. Songs to one’s lover
52. Cattle’s mammary gland
55. Having ten
56. Fencing sword
60. Scarlett’s home
61. Hold valuables
63. Italian Seaport
64. Cain and __
65. Bad places to live
66. Large, wading bird
67. Witches
68. Cover with drops
69. Props up the head
CLUES DOWN
1. Philippine province
2. Shallow channel
3. Type of acid
4. Cygnus’ brightest star
5. One who buys and sells securities (abbr.)
6. Ill will
7. Plant of the goosefoot family
8. Intellectual
9. Mineral
10. Shiny silicate minerals
11. Ottoman civilian title
12. What you wear when eating BBQ (2 words)
13. Soul and calypso song
21. Advises
23. “The Spanish Tragedy” playwright
25. Surrounds the earth
26. Paddle
27. Adjusted
28. Succulent plant
29. Forearm bones
32. Belonging to Egyptian ascetic Apollo’s colleague
33. Type of mental illness
34. One from Asia
36. 007’s creator
37. Direct toward
38. Pie _ __ mode
40. Large terrier
41. Hillsides
43. Patriotic women (abbr.)
44. Connects words
46. For each
47. Flower cluster
49. Closes a deal
50. Arabian desert
51. Vaccine against poliomyelitis
52. American state
53. Religion practiced in China
54. Type of sediment
57. Hall of Famer Ruth
58. “Layla” singer Clapton
59. Gamble
61. Sino-soviet block (abbr.)
62. Midway between south and southwest