DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rifle range

rounds

5 Rainfall measure 9 Transitional state 14 Bread buy

15 NYC area above

Houston Street 16 Hunter

constellation 17 *Half a percussion pair

19 “__ bleu!”

20 From India, say 21 Civil uprising 23 Account exec 24 *Fill-in-the-blanks

agreement, e.g. 28 Post-WWII feminine flier

31 Small swallow 32 __ bubbles 33 Bigheadedness 34 *Cake soaked in

alcoholic syrup 39 Cake pan

trademark 42 Zilch

43 Africa’s Sierra __ 44 *Brand for bubble blowers 47 Trivial point 48 Yet again 49 High-arcing tennis shot 51 Purported UFO

fliers

52 *Security device that maybe silent

57 Opposite of WNW 58 __ about: roughly 59 Soothed

63 Golf analyst Nick 65 Wander aimlessly ... and a hint to a divided word in the answers to starred clues 68 Get ready to compete, bodybuilder-style 69 Parting words? 70 Actress

Hayworth 71 Crisscross

frameworks 72 London gallery 73 __-bitsy

DOWN

1 Actress Jessica 2 Cattle chorus 3 Salon service with a pedi

4 Gift __: chattiness 5 Hoosier St. 6 Here-there link 7 Butter-making device

8 Bro

9 One in need of spiritual guidance 10 Gershwin brother 11 Emcee’s need 12 Destructive insect

13 Hr. after noon 18 Burden

22 Mount of Greek myth

25 Bro, to a sis 26 “Brusha, brusha, brusha” toothpaste

27 Cab ride price 28 Jack of “Dragnet” 29 Water, to Juan 30 Full last name of a “Happy Days” cool dude 35 Gargantuan 36 __ in the

conversation 37 Self-storage

compartment 38 Citi Field team 40 Doorbell sound 41 Figure skating

jumps 45 Nine-time U.S. skating champ Michelle 46 Extinct emu-like

bird

50 Uncle Remus rabbit’s title 52 Confuse 53 TWA competitor 54 Many a modern assembly-line worker 55 Caribbean resort isle

56 New Zealand settler

60 Hearts or clubs 61 Sinus docs 62 WWII turning point 64 Defective firecracker 66 Cambridge univ. 67 Munched on

By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke © 2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.