THEME: MYSTERIES AND THRILLERS

ACROSS

1. Wire danger

6. Part of a circumference

9. Nashville’s Keith

13. In a cold manner

14. Prefix for something revived

15. Paralyzing disease

16. Mulled wine

17. Egg cells

18. A do-nothing

19. *”Alphabet Series” detective novels author

21. *”It’s close to midnight, and something evil’s lurking in ____ ____”

23. Second mo.

24. Fabricca Italiana Automobili Torino

25. Not don’ts

28. Popular Japanese soup

30. *Agatha Christie’s famous sleuth

35. Wood sorrels

37. “Through” in text

39. Give sheep a haircut

40. Raise the roof

41. Wall or pedestal support

43. Cogito, ____ sum

44. Drink like a cat, two words

46. Be inclined

47. Commotions

48. Bewitch or beguile

50. Jack and Jill’s water jug

52. Put to work

53. *James Patterson’s “____ the Girls”

55. “Jack and the Beanstalk” Giant’s disapproval

57. *Hitchcock classic

61. *Poe’s “Tales of ____ and Imagination”

65. In the know

66. *Subject of Roswell’s mystery

68. Cocoon dwellers

69. King Julien XIII of “Madagascar,” e.g.

70. Bubble source

71. Possible allergic reaction

72. Gaelic tongue

73. Store posting, for short

74. Oceanic trenches

DOWN

1. Google alternative

2. Maple genus

3. Capital on the Baltic Sea

4. Blindman’s ____

5. International ____ of Units

6. In a little while, old-fashioned

7. Once around

8. Raccoon’s South American cousin

9. *The Demon Barber

10. Spanish earthen pot

11. Coffin stand

12. *New ____, setting of “The Alienist”

15. Michelangelo’s famous Vatican statue and others like it, e.g.

20. Death reports, for short

22. Deli offering

24. Baby extractor

25. *Sherlock Holmes creator

26. Continental divide

27. Planktonic tunicate

29. *”Who ____ J.R.?”

31. Actress Perlman

32. “Lost” in Paris

33. Mar-a-___, pl.

34. Having a toothed margin

36. Undesirable location

38. Forearm bone

42. Enlighten

45. Slower

49. Oil drilling apparatus

51. Spoke with a speech defect

54. Make a murmuring sound

56. Chopin’s composition

57. Wide river valley

58. Water carrier

59. L.A. footballers

60. *HBO’s “____ Detective”

61. *Pamela Voorhees and Norma Bates, e.g.

62. D’Artagnan’s sword

63. Stairway alternative

64. Those not opposed

67. *Remus Lupin’s occasional body cover