THEME: CIVIL WAR
ACROSS
1. Rodeo garb
6. Prefix for prior
9. a.k.a. leaf cabbage
13. Conversation starter
14. “____ the land of the free …”
15. Drunks
16. Tree in Latin
17. Exec’s degree
18. Full of emotion, in slang
19. *Meeting at Appomattox Court House
21. *Major Civil War issue
23. Sun in Mexico
24. Recover
25. *It was split during the Civil War
28. ____book
30. Be in the right place
35. Botticelli’s Venus, e.g.
37. Soccer ____, pl.
39. Excessive sternness
40. Orthodox artwork
41. Homeless cat’s home
43. Presented at customs
44. Galactic path
46. Desperate
47. Like never-losing Steven
48. Vital
50. Grannies
52. “C’____ la vie!”
53. “At ____, soldier”
55. Casual attire
57. *Spielberg’s 2012 movie
61. *”American Nightingale”
64. Remote in manner
65. Between Fla. and Miss.
67. IRS’ threat
69. Middle Eastern rice dish
70. Hi-____ graphics
71. Part of a whole
72. ____ Mall, in London
73. Cry of horror in comics
74. Ruhr’s industrial center
DOWN
1. Repeated Cuban dance step
2. Flavor-giving plant
3. “Fantastic Four” star
4. Land chunks
5. Somewhat
6. Fleshy fruit
7. *Johnny’s other nickname
8. Clear the chalkboard
9. Chicken ____
10. Initial stake
11. Displeasure on one’s face
12. Grammy of sports
15. Melville’s “Pequod,” e.g.
20. “Is Your Mama a ____?”
22. Dr. Frankenstein’s workplace
24. Bottom of a dress
25. *Divided, it cannot stand
26. Sugar in Paris
27. PDF reader
29. *”____ Mountain,” Charles Frazier’s novel
31. Like SNL
32. Nose of a missile
33. Olfactory organs
34. *General and post-Civil War President
36. Children’s author ____ Blyton
38. “Will be” in Doris Day song
42. Busybody, in Yiddish
45. Start a hole
49. Indian restaurant staple
51. Colorful Mexican wrap
54. Animal catcher
56. Lady’s pocketbooks
57. Nordic native
58. Pelvic parts
59. Steelers’s Chuck
60. *___ Torpedo, used by Confederacy against steam engines
61. Lounge, like in the sun
62. Words from Wordsworth
63. French Riviera city
66. *Commander of the Confederate States Army
68. Base of the decimal system