INSECT INVASION
ACROSS
1 Key with three sharps: Abbr.
5 Shroud of gloom
9 Big bacon blocks
14 Merry Christmas sound
15 Understanding words
16 “___ is a gift. That’s why they call it the present.”: Bill Keane
17 Village with just a single equine-biting insect?
20 Modern putdown
21 “Canadian Mint” record maker
22 Dr. Mom’s offering
23 Stormy weather trend, with “la”
25 Weekend lover’s cry
27 Like drinks bought by a generous buzzing insect?
32 Global ring fighters’ org.
34 Tegan and ___ (singing twins)
35 Swimming phenom Michael
36 NATO alphabet starter
38 Amts. that may be “fluid”
40 Theatre balcony box
41 With Portage Ave. it forms “the crossroads of Canada”
44 The Maritimes, with “down”
47 Train unit
48 Lactic liquid produced by monarch insects?
51 Happily-after link
52 Japanese noodles
53 Get an ___ (ace, as a test)
56 “The Walking Dead” girl since Season 5
58 Suppressed, as feelings
62 Amiable glowing insect?
65 Big-eyed barn baby
66 Git through yer noggin
67 Zap with light 68 Dorkish
69 Hosiery hangup 70 Window blind strip
DOWN
1 Chips ___! (cookies)
2 “The kissing disease”
3 “I’m here too, you know”
4 The “J” of J.S. Bach
5 Fish thought to be ferocious
6 Donkey kin
7 Scallion’s bigger cousin
8 Bequeathed, as in a will
9 In vogue
10 Subdivision division
11 Just ___ on the map (teeny)
12 Cry like a baby
13 Align in time
18 Leaves off the list 19 Get a ___ (gain an edge)
24 Bubbly chocolate bar
26 Get touchy?
27 “Oh, come ___!” (“Get real!”)
28 Off-brown eye colour
29 Mass mass
30 U.S. club for women with clubs
31 Belgian battlesite river
32 Rhythmic bit, in poetry
33 Blue, in Berlin
37 Deserve a deal, maybe?
39 Articulates
42 Three score and ten
43 Be much tweetedabout
45 Ignoring Weedless Wednesday, say
46 River of Rome
49 Petticoat trimmings
50 Flag pin places
53 In ___ (confused)
54 “Say as he says, ___ shall never go” (“The Taming of the Shrew”)
55 Aswan Dam river
57 Actress Cannon
59 Nonstick baking brand
60 “Play it, Sam” speaker
61 Rasputin’s refusal
63 Cartoon squeal
64 Monk’s title