CROSSWORD
BIRDS’ WORDS
ACROSS 1 Egg farm flock 5 Campaigner’s blunder 10 “Match Game” host Baldwin 14 Zillions 15 Thumb one’s nose at 16 Slap with a summons 17 Is concerned 19 Skin So Soft maker 20 “Missile Command” game company 21 “You and who ___?” 22 Door ding, e.g. 23 Zeroes out 25 New York’s East River, technically 27 Hazmat-monitoring org. 29 Acts the bootlicker 32 5-Down agents, e.g. 35 Render unreadable, in a way 39 Seeming eternity 40 Post-op stop, for short 41 Suffer humiliation 42 Hindrance to teamwork, perhaps 43 Tommy John surgery site 44 Sprung up 45 Stash overhead 46 Crest containers 48 Mincemeat ingredient, perhaps 50 Take an axe to 54 Chaplinesque figures 58 Kunis of “Ted” 60 Give a deep massage to 62 Nonreactive, as helium 63 Touch upon 64 Whisper sweet nothings 66 Common lab animals 67 25-Across terminus, often 68 Optimist’s declaration 69 Seeks directions, say 70 Listings on Monopoly deeds 71 It may be assumed or dropped DOWN 1 Viking of the comics 2 A-listers 3 Stars that flare up, then fade 4 Systems in man caves 5 Govt. property org. 6 Post-Pilates feeling, perhaps 7 Makes a monkey of 8 “Punkin” covering, in poetry 9 Maze word 10 Place name from which “Cajun” comes 11 Many a message from Trump 12 George Orwell’s alma mater 13 Coin many suggest phasing out 18 Goes unused 24 Wind ___ (pilot’s problem) 26 Not nearly as many as 14-Across 28 ___-G suit 30 Like a scratched space shot 31 Word before cone or crab 32 Abarth automaker 33 Lampshade shade 34 Stupid sort 36 Dupes in inboxes 37 Tram loads 38 Fave food for Homer Simpson 41 Allay, as fears 45 Movie star’s double 47 Makes ecstatic 49 The Auld Sod, poetically 51 Shaded recess 52 Any of Mel Blanc’s many 53 Sitcom with a famous “outing” 55 Vail or Aspen, to a skier 56 Celebrity tourney, perhaps 57 Early weapon material 58 Bear with a too-soft bed 59 Bird mummified by Egyptians 61 No longer fizzy 65 Q&A part