UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE CROSSWORD PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED

ACROSS

1 Unisex garment 5 Pillow filler 9 Excuse

14 Run in neutral 15 Grease gun target 16 Kind of point 17 Form droplets 18 Commend highly 19 Pierre’s brother 20 Led on

22 Wants badly 24 Movie with a posse Meyers of “Kate & Allie” Happens Makes larger Action flick must Meter maid of song Carnaby Street locale

Holed up Merchant ships Chess pieces Neutral shade Rainbow goddess Coronet Radiation measure

UPS customer Garden-pond fish 26

27 30 35 36

37

38 39 42 43 45 46 48

50 51 52 54 58 62 63 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 Pastes

Even as we speak Placate Derrick arms Old Dodge model Impoverish Not relevant Astute

Garr of “Tootsie” Backpackers’ gear “Anything —?” Malamute’s load

DOWN

1 Intuition

2 Blissful spot 3 Shutter part 4 Beyond boring 5 Diamond sides 6 Water or rust

7 PC key

8 Assemble 9 Maintain as true 10 Thames trucks 11 Freezes over

12 SF transit system 13 Monsieur’s islands 21 Shift-6

23 Helga’s hubby 25 Viking pursuit 27 Yellow pigment 28 Boy from Baja 29 Tight-knit team 9-26-18

31 32 33 34

36

40 41 44 47 49

Navajo foes Herd follower Yonder

Bat’s navigational system Steakhouse order Unbending Expensive Sloppy

Fliers

Host’s proposals 50 53 54 55 56 57 59

60 61 64 Prone’s opposite Rustic roads Not much (2 wds.) Unfrequented Horse color Blouse part Ayla’s creator Jean — Royal honorific Writer — Bagnold “Mad Max” Gibson