Crossword

No. 0726

ACROSS

1 Write 4 Recipe details: Abbr. 8 Popular newspaper puzzle 14 Words of promise 15 Respectful term of address 16 Yoga poses 17 Bother 19 Black out, in a way 20 Accountant 22 Much-overused filler word 23 Smartphones replaced them, for short 24 German wheels 27 “It wasn’t me,” for one 30 Cirque du Soleil performers 34 Rival school of Winchester 35 Activating, as a security system 37 Feature of two lowercase letters of the alphabet 38 Consumer 40 Yellow or gray 41 Dessert made primarily of flour, butter, eggs and sugar 43 K-12 school org. 44 Ring-measuring devices 47 Sign 48 Astronauts’ workplace 50 Comment accompanying a shrug 52 Sierra Club founder John 53 “Let’s go!” 54 Numerical prefix … or, with 62-Across, another name for this puzzle’s key symbol 57 Deadeyes 62 Olympian Jim or Ian 65 Jack-of-all-trades 66 Plow and plant again 67 “Make room for life” sloganeer 68 “Am ___ understand …?” 69 Charm

70&71 Symbol used four times in this puzzle with four different meanings

DOWN

1 A.T.M. necessity 2 Cabinet dept. 3 Gritty genre 4 Mystery novelist Cross 5 Stone-capturing board game 6 Instruments on dashes 7 Hook’s henchman 8 Unsettle 9 Zoning concern 10 Fill-in-the-blanks story 11 ___ B’rith 12 Absence 13 Where the sun rises, in Mexico 18 Not prone 21 More spicy 25 Where to find an average joe? 26 Place to get a rescue animal 27 Far parts of the universe 28 Les ___-Unis 29 Absent from 30 Major biotech company 31 What Rhett Butler didn’t give 32 Arcade item 33 Transcriber 36 Finely honed 39 Alphabet quartet 42 Sheriff’s domain, typically 45 Article of the Constitution that provides for the Supreme Court 46 Mother-and-daughter singers Nina and Lisa 49 Ethically unprincipled 51 Repeated part of the “Camptown Races” refrain 53 R&B singer Khan 54 “Por ___ parte” (Spanish for “on the other hand”) 55 Nobel Prize category: Abbr. 56 Meat substitute 58 ___ Tzu 59 Let out 60 Pro ___ 61 Make out, in Manchester 63 Lead-in to K 64 Certain fire dept. employee

PUZZLE BY NATE CARDIN