CROSSWORD
ACQUISITION ADVICE
ACROSS
1 Conks on the noggin 5 Fleece-lined boots 9 Vampire hunter’s weapon 14 Word preceding hygiene or testimony 15 Just For Men covers it 16 Lout, in Canada 17 Flat-topped formation 18 Many a John Wayne movie 20 Like a wimp’s spouse, often 22 Vegas casino, familiarly 23 Butler at Tara 26 Kon-Tiki Museum city 27 Grand ___ (wine label words) 29 Hammer- throwing deity 31 User of French chalk 35 “___ So Shy” (Pointer Sisters hit) 36 Bedouin chief 38 Patsy who sang “Sweet Dreams” 39 It buried Pompeii 40 Where a hard hat is worn 42 Inserted coins in, as a meter 43 Name on a tractor 45 Sonic the Hedgehog’s company 46 Final curtain 47 Scatters, as seed 49 Raise the hackles of 51 Schiller ode subject 52 Prefix with gram or graph 54 49 percent owner of Virgin Atlantic 56 Furtively 67-Across 59 Book after Jonah 62 Playgoer’s memento 66 Name in kitchen utensils 67 Butler’s invitation 68 Celestial bear 69 Words that may precede the first words of 18-, 40- and 62-Across and 3- and 32-Down 70 Hacienda drudges of old 71 Got a gander of 72 Tend to the batter
DOWN
1 Flop on stage 2 Creme-filled treat 3 Gridder who may record sacks 4 Cut sharply, as prices 5 “Disgusting!” 6 Miracle-___ (garden products brand) 7 Long-jawed fish 8 Food service company on the Fortune 500 9 It goes through eyelets 10 Garden product sometimes sold in cubic yards 11 On the briny 12 Graham, TV’s “Galloping Gourmet” 13 Regency and Victorian, for two 19 Marco Polo’s heading 21 “Is it soup ___?” 24 Chicago Cubs president Epstein 25 The pyramids, essentially 27 Litter from paper ballots 28 Put back to 000 30 Choir’s place 32 Safety item also called a Mae West 33 Bridge bid, briefly 34 Helen who sang “I Am Woman” 37 Like a zeppelin, as opposed to a blimp 40 Purveyors of fine watches 41 Story that’s “spun” 44 Done over, as a photo 48 Feature of some skirts 50 “Nightmare” street 53 Occur afterward 55 Cheryl who appeared on three Swimsuit Issue covers 56 Armstrong’s fourth word from the moon’s surface 57 Trident part 58 Prefix meaning “outer” 60 Start of a play 61 Frosty coating 63 Take a stab at 64 Play for a sap 65 Good, in street lingo