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