The Weekly Crossword

CLUES ACROSS

1. Boat structure

5. Affirmatives

10. From end to end

14. Ancient Syrian city

15. Plant parts

16. Anatomical feature of worms

17. Invests in little enterprises

18. Cuts the skin off

19. Noted child psychiatrist

20. Satisfies

22. Take by sips

23. Matched

24. It changed the world

27. U.S. Founding Father Adams

30. Father

31. Swiss river

32. They hold music

35. Spoke

37. Used to write

38. Cold wind

39. More competent

40. Test for high schoolers

41. Mild analgesic

42. Indian industrial city

43. Fellas

44. Short-tailed martens

45. No seats available

46. Golf score

47. A way to sink

48. Type of investment account 49. Songs

52. Type of sword

55. __ King Cole, musician

56. Type of vaccine

60. Site of the Taj Mahal

61. Languished

63. Ethnic group in South China

64. Prevent from seeing

65. Word of farewell

66. Charity given to the poor

67. Chops

68. Swiss capital

69. One point east of southeast

CLUES DOWN

1. Type of hall

2. Swedish rock group

3. Long, narrow cut

4. Indicating silence

5. Talk at length

6. Wiped away

7. Sweet substance (alt. sp.)

8. Babar is one

9. Soviet Socialist Republic

10. French avant-garde composer

11. Commoner

12. Swiss river

13. A single-minded expert

21. Passover feast and ceremony

23. Indie record label (abbr.)

25. Fellow

26. Strong tree

27. Drenches

28. Spindle

29. North Dravidian language

32. Lounges about

33. Preamble

34. Essential for nachos

36. Afternoon beverage

37. 007’s creator

38. Founder of Babism

40. Music played in open air

41. Profoundly wise men

43. Disfigure

44. Unhappy

46. Prefix denoting “in a”

47. Cotton fabric; satiny finish

49. Closes tightly

50. The lowest point

51. Semitic sun god

52. Grads wear one

53. Phil __, former CIA

54. Fermented rather than distilled

57. Aids digestion

58. Unstressed-stressed

59. Body part

61. Wonderful

62. Expected at a certain time