CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Illusionary painting style 6 Tenth mth., oddly 9 It’s beautiful to Neapolitans 14 Cowpoke, at times 15 Beta Kappa preceder

16 US butter alternatives

17 “Don’t be so hard on the guy!”

20 Assert without proof

21 To the left (pref.) 22 Titanic message 23 Eyelid abscess 24 Previous to, poetically

26 Most of a mummy 28 Ho-hum writer 34 Simon & Garfunkel’s “I ___ Rock”

37 Windshield sticker 38 Baked clay cooking pot 39 Japan’s ‘72 Winter Olympics site 41 Unwelcome greeting?

44 Swedish retail giant 45 Speckle-coated steeds

47 It’s used when driving

48 Separator often used in URLs 52 Potash solution 53 Actor Robbins of “The Shawshank Redemption” 54 As mentioned prior

58 Place for a word of “Welcome”

61 Airline with a hub at Ben Gurion 63 Portuguese coin introduced in 1772 65 In whatever manner the situation is viewed 68 Square things up 69 Openings, to Ovid 70 Sundance’s sidekick

71 Uppsala native

72 Beatles era turn-on 73 Notices

DOWN

1 Apex oceanic predators

2 Young turkey

3 In a suitable manner

4 Do some shoe repairing

5 Subj. involving a sin?

6 Mil. missions 7 Contaminated water consequence 8 What sundials tell

9 Like Dolly Parton, say

10 Bracket shape 11 Grassy pastures 12 Totally unhinged 13 Implores 18 Sign-bearer in an airport, e.g.

19 “Be it ___ so humble...” 25 Guinness Book entry

27 The Old Curiosity, e.g.

29 Testifier’s words

30 Caustic soda, for one

31 “Thanks ___!”

32 Bit of evidence 33 Winslet of “Titanic” 34 “Fat chance!” 35 Scary-looking shark 36 Impersonator 40 Machine’s direction control 42 Faberge egg glaze 43 S

46 Stable work force 49 Response to your mate

50 Depend (on)

51 Minor glitch in the plan

55 Because of

56 Royal proclamation 57 Insects entranced by flames

58 “The War of the Worlds” planet 59 Again from the top

60 Hunt and peck 62 Completely off base?

64 Bro. and sis.

66 Stack of bank notes

67 In really low spirits