CROSSWORD NO. 2
ACROSS
1 Toward the setting
sun
5 Pasta served at
Sicilian weddings
9 Clever
14 You’ll get a hand
for it
15 Since
16 South American
beast with a snout
17 *Monastic updo? (note how an “R” sound moves in each starred answer)
19 ___ and kicking
20 One may nest on a
cliff
21 *Whiskey drinker’s
laundry problem?
23 LP speed
24 MDS
27 Had in common
28 Datum such as AQI
30 List units
33 Rage
34 Be against
36 Lieu
38 *Arizona and Nevada, compared to Louisiana and Florida?
40 They work with
feet and meters
42 Composer Gustav
or Alma
43 Choose
44 Bit of mental
warfare, briefly
45 Reduce to a pulp 49 Look (for)
52 Summer hrs. in
most states
54 Question of
identity
55 *Reaction to a
courtroom punch?
58 Spanish for “now”
60 Literary crowd
member?
61 *Cook who puts
grains in the oven?
64 Took a loss
65 Shapeless shape
66 Obscene
67 Complete
makeovers
68 Undesirable
roommate
69 Finishes
DOWN
1 Sandwich cookie
parts
2 Mesmerized
3 Mark of disgrace
4 Bluish color on a certain duck Electricity sound Prefix with “thermal” or “metric”
7 Guided excursion
8 Doubtful
9 Store covertly
10 Country in the
Mediterranean
11 Places to manage
workers?
12 Mediterranean
resort area 5 6 13 Got popular online
18 Common color for
salsa
22 Road curve shape
25 Unlike a green
banana
26 Weather alert
subjects
29 Civil wrong
31 Piece of writing that sounds like its third and fourth letters
32 System
35 Letters after
omicrons
36 Jeanne d’arc, e.g.:
Abbr.
37 Bit of jargon
38 Full of specifics
39 European peaks
40 After a peace
treaty is signed
41 Perform surgery
44 Vietnamese soup
46 Already roused
47 Sagacious
48 Miser’s collections
50 The “R” of NPR
51 Devonshire cream
features
53 Bill for Bloody
Marys
56 Planets, poetically
57 Stuff with stuff
59 In good shape
62 Sound like a pigeon
63 Go back, as the
tide