The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
Crossword
No. 0331
ACROSS
1 Becomes less important by comparison
6 Newspaper unit
10 “The Garden of Earthly Delights” painter
15 Bitcoin, e.g.
16 Hubbubs
17 Bear who sings “The Bare Necessities” in a 1967 Disney film
18 City near St. Petersburg
19 Bellyache
20 Benjamin Franklin is depicted on the first U.S. one (1847)
21 Virtuoso
22 “C’mon, open the door!”
25 1990s supermodel with a palindromic name
26 Like regular exercise and happiness, per research
28 Put one’s trust in
30 Fill to the gills
31 43rd prez
34 Mrs., on Majorca
35 Japanese salad herb
36 Pint-size
39 Something to believe in
41 Smaller parts making up a larger whole … with a hint to the six groups of shaded squares in this puzzle
45 Brand of knives touted in classic infomercials
46 2006 Winter Olympics host
47 Diamond stat
48 Dance move that went from trendy to cringey in the 2010s
51 Heracles, to Zeus
52 Stitch’s pal, in film
56 “Two thumbs up!”
59 Key of Beethoven’s Ninth
61 Above-the-knee skirt
62 Brown loaf with an earthy taste
65 Pet rocks, once
66 They turn litmus paper red
68 Stead
69 Part of a political convention roll call
71 Checks out, in a way
72 Thingy
73 Satirist ___ Baron Cohen
74 Singer John whose middle name is Hercules
75 Food for a sea urchin
76 Company behind the first microprocessor
DOWN
Potpourri pieces 1
Tree that’s
2 a favorite of giraffes Bemoan
3
4 Paranormal power, for short
5 Thin-layered sedimentary rock
6 Covenant
7 One who raised Cain
8 Wounded by a bull, say
9 Catches sight of
10 Tiny ammo
11 Like some breakfast cereals
12 Emphatic twopointer
13 Going places?
14 “Heaven forbid!”
23 Sidled (along)
24 “Fresh Air” broadcaster
27 French military headwear
29 Use, as dishes
32 Conflict that ended at 11:00 on 11/11
33 Crooked
37 Slip past
38 Swelled heads
40 Food-spoiling bacterium
41 Like Sodom and Gomorrah
42 Abraham Lincoln, for one
43 Modern lead-in to -grammer
44 ___ hop (swing era dance)
45 Not a happy face
49 Put two and two together? Mayim who
50 played Amy Farrah Fowler on “The Big Bang Theory”
53 “Believe it or not …”
54 Abhor
55 Herculean undertaking
57 Many a smartphone recording
58 Far from original
60 Soccer great with a statue in Buenos Aires
63 Topple (over)
64 Posterior
67 Nine-digit ID, in brief
70 Shade of brown