The Weekly Crossword

CLUES ACROSS

1. Small lump

4. Helps little firms

7. A way of performing

12. Lawyers

15. Stirred up

16. Believed in

18. The Bay State (abbr.)

19. Makes computers

20. Sodium

21. As fast as can be done (abbr.)

24. Institute legal proceedings against

27. More compact

30. Ethiopian river

31. Quantitative fact

33. No (Scottish)

34. A concession of no great value

35. Tony-winning actress Daisy

37. More (Spanish)

39. Russian space station

41. Helicopter

42. At the peak

44. Makes ecstatically happy

47. Excellent

48. Material body

49. The Golden State (abbr.)

50. A unit of plane angle

52. Argon

53. Fancy

56. Fried mixture of meat and spices

61. How green plants use sunlight

63. Without wills

64. Unhappy

65. Meat from a pig’s leg

CLUES DOWN

1. Mentor

2. Lyric poems

3. A dry cold north wind in Switzerland

4. Trapped

5. Used for road surfacing

6. Cuckoos

7. Prefix “away from”

8. Seth McFarlane comedy

9. Not out

10. “The Simpsons” bus driver

11. Popular HBO drama (abbr.)

12. Acclaimed Indian physicist

13. Removes

14. One-name NBA player

17. Revolutionary women

22. Smell

23. Ground-dwelling songbird

24. Midway between south and southeast

25. American state

26. Keen

28. Khoikhoin peoples

29. Int’l defense organization

32. Samoan money

36. A sign of assent

38. One from Somalia

40. Boat race

43. Trims

44. French coins

45. Indigenous Scandinavian

46. Flew alone

51. Loch where a “monster” lives

54. Japanese title

55. Pros and __

56. Present in all living cells

57. Something to scratch

58. Branch of Islam

59. Appear

60. Former CIA

62. Yukon Territory