Crossword

ACROSS

1 Rifle range

rounds

5 Rainfall measure 9 Transitional state 14 Bread buy 15 NYC area above

Houston Street 16 Hunter

constellation 17 *Half a

percussion pair 19 “__ bleu!”

20 From India, say 21 Civil uprising 23 Account exec 24 *Fill-in-the-blanks

agreement, e.g. 28 Post-WWII

feminine flier 31 Small swallow 32 __ bubbles 33 Bigheadedness 34 *Cake soaked in

alcoholic syrup 39 Cake pan

trademark

42 Zilch

43 Africa’s Sierra __ 44 *Brand for bubble

blowers

47 Trivial point

48 Yet again 49 High-arcing

tennis shot 51 Purported UFO

fliers

52 *Security device

that may be silent 57 Opposite of

WNW

58 __ about: roughly 59 Soothed

63 Golf analyst Nick 65 Wander aimlessly ... and a hint to a divided word in the answers to starred clues 68 Get ready to compete, bodybuilder-style 69 Parting words? 70 Actress Hayworth 71 Crisscross

frameworks 72 London gallery 73 __-bitsy

DOWN

1 Actress Jessica 2 Cattle chorus 3 Salon service

with a pedi 4 Gift __:

chattiness 5 Hoosier St. 6 Here-there link 7 Butter-making

device

8 Bro

9 One in need of

spiritual guidance 10 Gershwin brother 11 Emcee’s need 12 Destructive

insect

13 Hr. after noon 18 Burden

22 Mount of Greek

myth

25 Bro, to a sis 26 “Brusha, brusha, brusha” toothpaste

27 Cab ride price 28 Jack of “Dragnet” 29 Water, to Juan 30 Full last name of a “Happy Days” cool dude 35 Gargantuan

36 __ in the

conversation 37 Self-storage

compartment 38 Citi Field team 40 Doorbell sound 41 Figure skating

jumps 45 Nine-time U.S. skating champ Michelle 46 Extinct emu-like

bird

50 Uncle Remus

rabbit’s title 52 Confuse

53 TWA competitor 54 Many a modern assembly-line worker 55 Caribbean resort

isle

56 New Zealand

settler

60 Hearts or clubs 61 Sinus docs 62 WWII turning

point 64 Defective

firecracker 66 Cambridge univ. 67 Munched on