Crossword

ACROSS

1 Containers at chocolate factories 5 Southern city just south of a national forest with the same name 10 Shout after a stressful week 14 Mrs. Peacock’s game 15 Cello bow application 16 Plead with, say 17 Fire hydrant attachment 18 Managed to irk 19 It’s a big blow 20 Pixar’s “Monsters, ___” 21 Orally 23 Nonverbal “yes” 24 R&B singer Bryson 26 ___ Levin, author of “Rosemary’s Baby” 27 Windows precursor 29 Undergraduate law deg. 30 Nothing 31 Clumsy fellow 32 Egg ___ yung (Chinese dish) 33 Newborn horses 35 “This instant!” 37 Make an approach like a bird of prey 39 Common churchyard conifer 42 Destiny 43 Spiritual center, in yoga 44 Look for 45 ___-Man 48 “Nothing for me, thanks” 49 Adm. Horatio Nelson, for one 52 Superexcited 55 Glowing bit in a fire 56 Aborted plan 60 Rorschach test shape 61 Show leniency toward 62 “The very ___!” 63 No-brainer? 64 Freak out 65 Champagne bottle stopper 66 “Truer words have never been spoken!” 67 Thus far 68 It “marches on its stomach,” per Napoleon

DOWN

1 TV blocking device 2 Companionless 3 Where the Crimson Tide play 4 Lay eyes on 5 Out-of-control revelry 6 Get a close-up of by camera 7 City almost at the end of the Columbia River 8 In a ceremonial manner 9 Hard-to-undo tie 10 Yank 11 Red River Valley city in the upper Midwest 12 House that’s cool to live in? 13 Puts money in, as a meter 21 Go up and down, as a buoy 22 Plan for hosp. patients 25 State university city in the Midwest 28 Sunny city with a famous pier 32 “Here are my thoughts,” online 33 Something thrown in frustration 34 1/60 of a min. 36 Used to be 50 Italian motor scooter 51 Not hunched over 52 Group with the hit “Waterloo” 53 Grab (onto) 54 Exude, as charm 57 Musk, e.g. 58 Infection cause 59 Tasting of wood, as some chardonnays

37 Calypso influenced genre 38 “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” org. 40 Fan sound 41 Consume 45 Argentine grassland 46 Original eastern terminus of the Erie Canal 47 French sweetie

PUZZLE BY TIMOTHY POLIN