CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Make believe 5 Quite limber 10 Bubbling with excitement 14 Coffin cover 15 Make a frog sound

16 Big, fancy wingding 17 Former label for the Stones, Led Zeppelin and Iron Butterfly 20 3-way junction 21 Social or liberal ending 22 Hoity-toity Spanish title 23 Permissive word 25 Overwhelming wonder

27 Really bad witnesses

28 Line going right through Auyuittuq National Park 32 Big, biblical boat builder

33 Chick watcher? 34 Pain in the rear end

38 Needle and ink creation, for short

39 Josh around

40 Trig. function 41 Pull behind 42 Gradually implant

44 One with a good beat?

45 Become less severe

46 Math whiz from Bangalore, maybe? 49 Trimmed off the rind

52 Network since ‘36

53 Backtalk, slangily

54 Like fatty tissue 56 Goldblum’s

Dr. Malcolm of “Jurassic Park” 58 Easily scrambled item

61 One of the fifty or so folk from Adamstown 64 Yokel’s word of ojection

65 Washed up 66 Patrick’s “Ghost” co-star

67 Spyglass component 68 Impresario’s presentation 69 Hushed “Hey, you!” DOWN 1 Lovers’ quarrel 2 Not like one bit 3 Stray toms 4 Nunavut politician, e.g. 5 Pursues a stage career

6 Made a pained face

7 Winter Games organizer

8 More capacious

9 One who just squeaks by 10 Painful ordeals 11 Lake west of Verona

12 What you become over time

13 Xenon and neon 18 One type of decree

19 Maria of the Met 24 Kenya’s northern neighbour, for short

26 Take first prize

28 “Contra” equivalent

29 Steed with a reddish-grey coat 30 You or me, once

31 Cuts into pieces 35 Bad situations for cattle drovers 36 What most people do at Vegas

37 Ceramic basin filler

39 Somewhat

40 More succinct 43 Cuff link companions

44 It’s hailed in many cities

45 U.K. recording giant, until 2012 47 Timmies’ chilling treat, slangily 48 Bone connected to the elbow bone

49 From Francis, maybe

50 Old proverb 51 London’s

‘78 Umbrella Murder poison 55 Rye container 57 “Betsy’s Wedding” star

59 Emeralds and such

60 Fine gravel

62 “___ been thinking...”

63 Alexa McDonough’s gp. of the ‘90s