DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Amendment dealing with states’ rights 6 Hobby shop buy 9 Longtime Wall Street name 14 Spanish month 15 Draft pick 16 Outfielder Mike who finished first (twice) or second (three times) in 20122016 AL MVP voting

17 Alien reptile in “Avatar”? 19 Snake, e.g. 20 Racks up 21 Corpulent 23 Connecting point 24 “Bad Moon Rising” band, initially

26 First of a series 29 Small amount 31 Worked the soil 33 Shopper stopper? 34 TV schedule abbr. 36 Buttonhole, say 38 Affirmative action

39 Bit of horseplay 42 Pest that’s gotten into the cheese? 44 Castilian kin 45 GP gp.

46 Mex. miss

47 Jr. and sr. 49 Brass

component

51 Bit of swearing 53 Slate et al., for

short

57 Merchant ship

flotilla

59 Ring bearer 61 Baker

62 Sprite flavor 64 Stage bit 66 North African site of a 1943 conference 68 Long-eared mascot of an L.A. newspaper? 70 Stun 71 “We’ve exceeded seating capacity” sign 72 Gauge

73 Chief Justice after Marshall 74 It’s big in London 75 Salad green

DOWN

1 Letter? 2 Captivate 3 Area 51 locale 4 Cut into three equal parts 5 Keeps to oneself 6 Lawn gnomes, e.g. 7 Snapchat had one in Mar. 2017 8 Poi source 9 Antibiotic target 10 Crops up 11 Tiny insect that casts spells? 12 Peach, e.g. 13 Orch. section 18 Old nuclear agcy. 22 __ harm 25 Promising 27 Wells race 28 Make over 30 Drops off 32 Brownie, in folklore

35 Dry gulch 37 Rubber in a boot?

39 __ Strip

40 “The Kite

Runner” boy 41 One of a group of feline predators? 43 “Give __ rest!” 48 Overwhelm 50 Strong-arm 52 Mark of “NCIS” 54 Do the Wright thing? 55 Types 56 Nasty smiles 58 Idaho’s __ Mountains 60 Fluke-to-be 63 Black-box analyzers: abbr. 65 Camp Pendleton letters

66 K.C. hours 67 “Caught you!” 69 Rage

By Paul Coulter © 2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC.