Crossword Puzzle 1

ACROSS

1 Soothing ointment

5 Criticize harshly

9 Deep-voiced singer

14 Great Lake that stretches from New York to Michigan

15 Every 12 mos.

16 Significant __: partner

17 Place for junk

19 Genetic twin

20 “Honey, I’m Home” singer Twain

21 Wagons at midday socials

23 B and B’s, e.g.

25 Home of twigs

26 Did a marathon, say

28 Relaxation of govt. rules

31 Skip, with “out”

34 Turn loose 36 Annoys

38 Oft-stubbed digit

39 In time gone by

40 U.S. Congress, informally

42 Enjoyed a meal

43 Web or nanny follower

44 Reef makeup

45 Some youth ctrs.

47 Cotton gin inventor Whitney

48 Defy authority

50 Approves

51 Dimpled facial feature, perhaps

54 Game room missile

56 From Tokyo, say

60 Overly large

64 Still in the game

65 Increasing, and a hint to 17- and 40-Across and 11- and 27-Down

67 Distance runner

68 Prescription amount

69 “Enchanted” movie girl played by Anne Hathaway

70 Arterial implant

71 Seeks answers

72 Doe or stag

DOWN

1 “Porgy and __”

2 Half a

McDonald’s logo

3 Old Italian money

4 Definition

5 Manually

6 “__ you comfy?” 7 Venetian blind piece

8 Promote big-time

9 Italian lawn bowling

10 Book of maps

11 Small order of pancakes

12 FedExed, say

13 Unrefined minerals

18 ATM code

22 __-hair pasta

24 Extremely harsh

26 Fit for a monarch

27 Nuclear reactor

29 Get-well program, briefly

30 Banished from one’s country

32 Greek i’s

33 Golfer’s pegs

34 Doily trim

35 Needing no Rx

37 Like a fox, it’s said

41 Lena who sang “Stormy Weather”

46 Took a drive

49 Wood-shaping machines

52 Place of refuge

53 Chemically nonreactive

55 Fish eggs

56 Traffic tie-ups

57 Touched down

58 Ginger ale or root beer

59 “The Catch” actress Mireille __

61 Liver secretion

62 Shipwreck site

63 Stick shift choice

66 “Shame on you!”