The Weekly Crossword

CLUES ACROSS

1. Taxi

4. Long periods of time

9. Boiled cow or sheep

14. Ottoman military commander

15. Pig

16. Don’t go near

17. Benin inhabitants

18. Pop star

20. Removes

22. Your sibling’s daughter

23. Trade

24. Dabbled

28. Tax collector

29. Atomic number 73

30. Russian emperor

31. Broad-winged bird of prey

33. Pale brownish yellow

37. A type of bill

38. One or a sum of things

39. Stiff, untanned leather

41. Naturally occurring solid material

42. Promotional material

43. Beer mug

44. Nostrils

46. Very rich

49. Atomic number 10

50. Not even

51. Pulls apart

55. City in western Finland

58. Wing shaped

59. Paddling

60. Player

64. Japanese classical theater

65. S-shaped lines

66. Coined for one occasion

67. Pitching stat

68. “M” actor

69. Some are noble

70. Lair

CLUES DOWN

1. Places to eat

2. Marketplace

3. Unoriginality

4. Administrative officials

5. Female sheep and a loch in Scotland

6. Something to drill for

7. Midway between north and northeast

8. Cassia tree

9. Founder of medical pathology

10. Long-legged wading bird

11. __ and goers

12. Go quickly

13. Used to cut and shape wood

19. Small island (British)

21. Dry or withered

24. “Last of the Mohicans” actress

25. Manufacturers need one

26. Tidal bore

27. Makes free of moisture

31. Semitic titles

32. Inappropriate

34. Gregory __, US dancer

35. -__, denotes past

36. Makes nicer

40. Indicates position

41. Made a priest

45. Sixth month of Jewish calendar

47. One who refrains

48. Type of top

52. Pay increase

53. Curved shape

54. Keeping down

56. Sleep sound

57. Tiny Iranian village

59. Only one time

60. Elected official

61. Before the present

62. Genus of grasses

63. Autonomic nervous system