CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Epsom and the like
6 Rain forest flora 11 Geisha’s accessory
14 Hang around for 15 Talk pompously 16 To and ___ 17 Bluebottle really close to Gawain’s hand, say? 19 In pretty good shape
20 To be, to Caligula’s cousins 21 Midmonth period of yore 22 Odd-looking Siberian antelope
24 Nobel winning archbishop 26 Noted Puccini opera
27 Attach a patch 30 Fittin’ nickname for Richard III? 34 Sprout
36 Word on a plane from Cork
37 Kismet
38 Hind’s mate 39 Moisten the bird 41 Guy who gave us a lift?
42 Something Descartes thought up
43 “O.K., ___ had it!” 44 “You ___ serious!” 45 Canadian WWI flying ace 49 Moliere’s “L’ecole ___ femmes” 50 Paparazzo’s target, briefly 51 Criminally assist 53 Twangy sounding
54 Home plate, for one
56 Dead set against 60 Word often with an unneeded apostrophe 61 Awesome sovereign? 64 Rocker David ___ Roth
65 Eagle’s hang-out (var.)
66 Made a decision 67 It always starts sobbing
68 Noble acts 69 Disorderly
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1 There could be money in it 2 Leather worker’s tools
3 Huge name in chips
4 “The roof of the world”
5 Piggery 6 Melted-cheese dish 7 Pennsylvania port
8 Cinderella’s clothing
9 Math term for “indefinitely large”
10 Incites to attack 11 Did the ref ’s job 12 Square-rigged two-master 13 Theta’s successor 18 Kin’s kin
23 Solicit
25 Early N.
American horse user
26 Whitewall or radial
27 Bwana, in Bengal 28 Wipes out
29 Radios of the ‘20s 31 Uses a surgical beam
32 To this point
33 Tales of derringdo
35 Actress Stevens 39 One type of lettuce 40 Prefix for the birds
44 Endangered primate
46 Cried out sharply 47 Meat and potato dishes
48 Do as you’re told
52 Mousy beige hue 53 Christie’s “Death on the ___” 54 Naked
55 Alkali neutralizer
57 The pucks stop here
58 Golf shop purchases
59 Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr., briefly 62 Needle feature 63 Iranian holy city