CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Piggeries 6 Asian nursemaid 10 Sharpen, as a knife 14 Veda devotee 15 Just the facts 16 Partake of 17 Flaming felony 18 Gives a shot in the arm, maybe 20 First person in France

21 A deer, a female deer

23 Like hidden talent 24 Shoulder blade 28 Fourth Greek letter 29 Turners’ tools 31 Live in the studio 33 Sigmoid curves 34 Low-voiced female 38 Grain containers 39 Skid Row denizen, slangily 40 Einstein contemporary Niels ___ 41 Precisely 43 Destroyer of the “Lusitania”

44 ___ time (eventually) 45 Do-or-die situation 46 Pre-Lenin leaders 49 Stray from the norm 51 Agamemnon’s father (myth.) 53 Granny, affectionately 54 “Little” LocoMotion singer of ‘62 57 Ceremonial smoker 60 Classical Greek style

62 Where Bonaparte was banished 63 Orwell’s real first name 64 Milkmaid’s main squeeze?

65 Veg out 66 It lasts for days 67 Fancy, curving billiards shot

DOWN

1 Phony

2 Rank beginner (var.)

3 Not taking no for an answer 4 Nipponese capital, decades ago 5 Ice-cream treats 6 Parisian goodbye 7 Starchy African staple 8 Something you can bank on, briefly?

9 Drag behind 10 Critter that Carroll created

11 Light golden brown

12 Social occasion 13 Seed coating, scientifically 19 Zenith’s opposite 22 Saturn’s wife (myth.) 25 Critter that Carroll created 26 Quick peek 27 Singer Lennox of the Eurythmics 29 Iberian wolf 30 Opposed to, in the backwoods 32 Had some chow 34 Cirrus, for one 35 Unsettled details 36 Baht user 37 Dinner discards 39 Plus

42 Follow logically 43 Reactor fuel 45 “Men in black” gp. 46 Become narrower 47 Carved stone slab 48 Omanis, mostly 50 One kind of sweater

52 Eject forcibly 55 Goes head-tohead 56 Portion of the NW quarter 58 Royally tick off 59 Lemon meringue, for one 61 Whoopi’s Oscar role ___ Mae