THEME: CHILDREN’S STORIES
ACROSS
1. Imposing house
6. ____ de deux
9. Fan’s approval
13. Cordial disposition
14. Eastern title
15. Water border
16. Wife of a raja
17. *”If ____ Give a Mouse a Cookie”
18. Cautious gambler
19. *He won a golden ticket
21. *C.S. Lewis’ fantasy realm
23. *”___’s Island”
24. *One of Three Bears
25. Disreputable vagrant
28. *”Matilda” creator
30. Nancy Drew’s focus, e.g.
35. “Put a lid ____ ____!”
37. Cheap trinket
39. Small Asian ungulate
40. Approximately
41. Florentine iris
43. Member of National Socialist German Workers’ Party
44. Type of wave
46. Per person
47. Design detail
48. Exactly right
50. Grassy land tracts
52. *”But I heard him exclaim ‘___ he drove out of sight”
53. Living quarters
55. *12-year-old tribute from District 11
57. *A boy raised by wolves
60. *”The Wind in the ____”
64. Like a haunted mansion
65. Dashboard unit
67. Shinbone
68. One Beatle
69. Word of possibility
70. Lack of muscle tension
71. Opposite of sun-kissed
72. Lt.’s inferior, in the Navy
73. As opposed to wants
DOWN
1. Designer Jacobs
2. Wet nurse
3. Columbus’ caravel
4. “The Howard ____ Show”
5. Pupil protector
6. “Pay as you earn” tax system
7. “Four score and seven years ____”
8. Finnish steam bath
9. Keep it up!
10. Mischievous Norse deity
11. S squared in a square
12. p in mph
15. Bounced
20. Idealized image
22. *Ivan in ”The One and Only Ivan,” e.g.
24. Plural of more than one, linguistically speaking
25. *Puss’ footwear
26. Same as rip
27. Botch
29. *Tortoise’s opponent
31. They have their pluses and negatives
32. *”The Fox and the ____,” sing.
33. Hardwood drinking bowl
34. *Rabbit hole wonderer
36. To perfection
38. Vegas cube
42. *____ Lewis, voice of Lamb Chop
45. Tenant in a home
49. Nada
51. *Scheherazade’s listener
54. “Gimme ____ Gimme” by ABBA
56. Chosen few
57. Of higher order, prefix
58. Never written down
59. Traitor’s device
60. “The ____ and wherefores”
61. Double-reed instrument
62. Kite driving force
63. What Simon does
64. Sixth sense
66. *J.M. Barrie’s Peter