CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Virgo’s brightest star
6 Get a car for the weekend 10 Sponsors’ spots 13 Walesa and Obama won one 14 Now or in the future 15 Copycat’s request 17 Arborist’s avowal?
20 Harass
21 Asian palm used in thatching 22 Open one’s eyes 23 Jessica who played Max in “Dark Angel” 25 Razor cut
27 Desert during a conifer crisis? 34 Intrigued by 35 Stubbing victim 36 Big musical drama
37 Nutria, for one 38 Hymn book 41 Grandma, to the grandkids 42 One who really makes an effort 44 Tiny Caribbean isle
45 Sell on the street 46 Poplar’s sad, winter admission?
50 Jello making instruction 51 Willowy
52 Number on a card, say 55 Month of the High Holy Days 57 Brainstorm 61 Reason some lumberjacks get medals of valour? 64 Ruptured
65 Fungal spore-bearing cells
66 Iranian coins 67 Silently assent 68 Object
69 Pile from a rock fall
DOWN
1 Small cut
2 Apple or pear
3 Sacred bird of the pharaohs 4 Hundredth of a Cuban peso 5 Mutated gene
6 Clerical VIP
7 With nary a wrinkle
8 Rather modern
9 Rare baseball hit 10 What incense sticks turn to 11 Calendar squares
12 Jolly Roger’s inept crewman 16 Female mouflon 18 Trips around the sun
19 He suits people
24 Useful Indonesian ox 26 Hines’ speciality
27 Picks up 28 Accustom
29 Sunlit courtyards 30 Verizon or AT&T 31 Kidney-like 32 Rush-hour pace
33 Sniffler’s need 38 Sugarbush 39 Observe: keep ___ on
40 It’s closed at night 43 Superhero’s attire symbol 45 Like the “Iliad” or the “Odyssey” 47 Asia’s largest antelope
48 Most authentic 49 Out of sight people
52 Get a dramatic job
53 Hockey enforcer 54 Bimetallic Belgian coin 56 Henry, Time’s co-founder
58 From ___
(at a distance) 59 Finish the bathroom walls 60 Modern Gaelic’s ancestor
62 Of a raspberry hue
63 Take-away toothpicks challenge