The Weekly Crossword

CLUES ACROSS

1. Sharp pain

5. Military hats

11. Software app on a network (abbr.)

14. Genus of freshwater mussels

15. Continent

16. Afghani monetary unit

17. Recovered

19. Ribonucleic acid 20. Refers to end of small intestine

21. Ethiopia’s largest lake

22. Hostelry

23. Defunct American automaker

25. Denotes origin by birth or descent

27. Part of a watch

31. Stare with mouth open wide

34. Found in granite 35. Competing

38. Stone film “__ Given Sunday”

39. Junction between two nerve cells

41. Greek goddess of the dawn

42. Fight

44. Thin, narrow piece of wood or metal 45. Ribosomal ribonucleic acid

46. Type of kitchenware 49. Specialty of The Onion

51. Major Mexican river 55. Kilometers per hour 56. Species of mackerel 60. Bones

61. Interest rate

62. New York Mets legend

64. 19th letter of Greek alphabet

65. Shawl

66. Gracefully thin 67. Type of deciduous tree

68. Not classy

69. Taro corm or plant

CLUES DOWN

1. Jewish festival 2. Anoint

3. More pleasant 4. Type pf painting 5. Witness

6. Harm

7. Builder of Arantea (Greek myth.)

8. City in India

9. Used to unlock cans 10. Induces sleep 11. More bouncy 12. A branch of Islam 13. White (French) 18. Legal term

24. Covered with frost 26. Hengyang Nanyue Airport

28. Wash

29. Disorder of the scalp 30. North American tree 31. Helps cars run

32. Mandela’s party 33. Aromatic plant of the daisy family

36. Negative

37. College student educator (abbr.)

39. Most rare

40. Harm with a knife 43. Folk singer DiFranco 45. Return to

47. One who repairs 48. Eastern England river 49. Hockey players need two

50. Dismay

52. Rebuke

53. Plant of the arum family

54. Fish genus

57. Plant of the mallow family

58. Amounts of time 59. 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet

63. One of Napoleon’s generals