CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cast off 5 Squared-off fight site, oddly

9 Visual illusion painting genre 14 Commanded 15 Hunch

16 Catatonic states 17 One of Tim The Tool Man’s sons 18 Oscar Madison, notably

19 Bit of a merry refrain

20 Coop resident that somehow always makes you feel better?

23 “... ___ home and native...”

24 Like well-worn, unwashed socks 25 Napoleon Solo

32 Plot together

35 Play rhythm guitar 36 Letters they used to type blood with 37 Aplomb

40 Popular city street tree

41 It was the “Friendly Isles”, once

44 In great detail

47 Girls from a South Korean family, say?

50 Make contingencies

51 Just a couple

53 Your dad’s wood carving sisters? 60 How the euphoric might walk?

61 “The Little Mermaid” prince 62 “Yo!” at sea

64 Clear the cribbage board

65 Decree ___

66 Short interoffice note

67 Swindler’s easy mark

68 Notable act 69 Caspian Sea country

DOWN

1 Peter out 2 Three-time space traveller Garneau 3 Spud exporting state

4 Wearisome states 5 World conquest board game

6 Doing nothing 7 “Open” sign gas 8 Intrusive igneous rock

9 Well-armed swimmer? 10 Ominous sign 11 Hunan Housemaid 12 Wheezy lung sound

13 Old Russian leader 21 Losing casino dice roll

22 Periphery

26 Tuck’s partner? 27 One way the pendulum swings 28 German surrender site of ‘45

29 Large First Nation grouping

30 Calm before the storm

31 TV actor’s award

32 Scratching post users

33 Symphonic wind 34 1925’s “___, Nanette”

38 Make use of a pew 39 Warsaw-Moscow dir.

42 Popular aquarium denizens

43 Reason for sneezing and scratching, say 45 Islamabad tongue

46 Wave of destruction

48 ___ Clemente, Calif.

49 Have in mind 52 “None of the above!”

53 Successful revolt 54 1/16 rupee, once 55 Transfixed

56 Scary sounding lake

57 Ascend

58 Folic or lactic 59 Happiness drug of “Brave New World” 63 Over there, quaintly