The Weekly Crossword

CLUES ACROSS

1. Baby’s first words

5. Expression of creative skill

8. Reddish-brown coating

12. Spanish province

14. Stinging insect

15. Greek temple pillars

16. Refurbish

18. Cave-dwelling amphibian

19. Millisecond

20. Removes something

21. Trendy

22. The Buckeye State

23. “Taken” actor

26. Of the skull

30. Made a mistake

31. Malignant tumor

32. Not night

33. German heavyweight boxer

34. Indicates weight

39. Businessman

42. Charged negatively

44. Indian instrument

46. Helps you know where you’re going

47. Written works

49. Kate and Rooney’s last name

50. Fast, flightless Aussie bird

51. Jerry, George, Kramer and __

56. Dodger great Hershiser

57. Where wine ferments (abbr.)

58. Supreme Allied Cmdr. Europe

59. Vedic god of fire

60. Not well

61. They grow into plants

62. Variety of pear

63. Where golfers start

64. Posterior

CLUES DOWN

1. Challenge

2. Assert

3. A female operatic star

4. Expression of sorrow or pity

5. Resistance unit

6. Attached a new backing canvas

7. Method painting

8. Branched

9. Barefooted

10. Beer mug

11. Beloved Mexican dish

13. Make better

17. One-time king of Troy

24. Pie _ __ mode

25. St. Anthony’s fire

26. Reciprocal of a sine

27. __-rah skirt

28. Notre Dame coach Parseghian

29. Computer hardware company

35. Policeman

36. Black tropical American cuckoo

37. Popular basketball player Jeremy

38. Electrocardiogram

40. Cheese dish

41. Prickly shrub

42. Atomic mass unit

43. Nostrils

44. Enchantresses

45. Emphatic typeface

47. One of the Florida Keys

48. Soft, fine material

49. Moutainous tract in Jordan

52. Breezes through

53. Professional assn. for tech pros

54. Class of comb jellies

55. Formerly (archaic)