The Province

CROSSWORD

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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

DOWN

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

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