UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE CROSSWORD PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED

ACROSS

1 Hoops nickname 5 Racing shell 10 Mother lodes 14 Something remarkable 15 Charmer

16 Cod kin 17 Earthen jar 18 Prince Valiant’s wife 19 Steady 20 Employee lists 22 Of the highest quality 24 Spigot 25 Designer label 26 Fossil resins 29 Save from a landfill 33 Bumps on a frog 34 Busy places 36 Kind of storm, in sci-fi 37 MacGraw of the movies

38 Get on a horse 39 Unsuccessful venture 40 — Bernardino 41 Gambling stake 42 Thin pancake 44 School subject 47 — up (got ready) 48 49 50 53 58 59 61 62 63 64 65

66 67 — ex machina Destiny Saffron dish Baton wielders Highest point Burro alternative Garage job Hum Clinker Charles Lamb Tennis court dividers Decade parts Antlered ruminant

DOWN

1 Piggy’s dinner 2 Storytelling dance 3 Band together 4 Foursome 5 Overprices 6 Winnow

7 Sporty vehicles 8 Found a perch 9 Greenest 10 Short-story pen name

Utter deliriously Barely makes do Dispatched Trireme movers Gold Medal org. Hum 11 12 13 21 23 25 11-17-18 26 27

28 30 31 32 34 35 38 42 43

Covered with water Singapore’s language Carry along Fruity drink Jeweler’s lens All through Regions

— of bounds By hand Corp. biggies Clanked 45 46 47 50 51 52 53 54 55 56

57 60 Time wasters Electric swimmer Gathers bit by bit Cat’s-paw Throb

Give forth Doll’s cry Love, to Luis Govern

NYC theater award

Char

Grant foe