FORWARDTHINKING FOLKS
ACROSS
1 Movie with a mechanical shark
5 Luxuriously furnished
9 Sought secrets, in a way
14 Worshipped one
15 “It’s a calamity!”
16 Seashell yield
17 Quayle’s successor
18 Aslan or Simba
19 Center Shaq
20 Job involving prediction
23 Word before justice or license
25 Staycation alternative
26 Orchestra-funding org.
27 Thurman of “Prime”
28 Grab the tab
30 Chess set figurines
32 Crooner ___ King Cole
33 Job involving prediction
39 Many a Cooking Channel figure 41 Expected to give birth
42 Coastal crasher
43 Job involving prediction
48 Bent accessory for Dilbert
49 Middle of Porky Pig’s signoff
50 Eastern “way”
51 Made a meal of
52 Word before school or hat
55 Dundee damsel
58 Collects bit by bit
60 Job involving prediction
63 Lincoln Center showstoppers
64 Vatican City surrounder
65 Kelly of talk TV
68 “A-laying” birds of song
69 Military group
70 Involved with, as a plot
71 Closed down
72 Subway Series team
73 Hard to grab hold of
DOWN
1 “Riverdance” dance
2 Big fuss
3 Like a bad apple, perhaps
4 Wintry downfall
5 Weasel’s malodorous cousin 6 Kent State’s state 7 Bull’s sound 8 Present with a blue ribbon, say 9 Prying sort 10 Feeling of hunger 11 Strand during a winter storm 12 Leave no trace of 13 Silt deposit formation 21 Insiders’ suggestions
22 Tree-climber’s handful
23 Reception bowlful
24 Corn Belt metropolis
29 Jedi exiled to Dagobah
31 “When do we want it?” response
34 Sugar borrower’s quantity
35 Wouldn’t release
36 Hepburn of “On Golden Pond” 37 Dasani competitor
38 Clarinetists’ needs
40 Big Pharma’s overseer
44 Treated terribly
45 Kennedy family, notably
46 Cliffside nestlings
47 Breath Savers purchase 52 Legally old enough 53 Sophia of “El Cid”
54 Helped with the dishes
56 Blood bank supply
57 Makeup of Moses’ tablets 59 Shivers-inducing 61 Subdue with a shock
62 Send off
66 Prez or veep, e.g.
67 “___ takers?”