CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fiji’s not-so-close neighbour

6 Judi Dench’s title 10 Stand for a funeral

14 Gould’s instrument

15 Big strangesounding lake 16 Just a smidge 17 Conflict of the far distant future, perhaps

20 Loony type 21 Bodies of art? 22 Like a week-old loaf

23 Where Hope and Crosby went in ‘52

24 To ___ his own 26 What a mediator does first in 17A 30 Croak, so to speak

33 It’s even in Kleenex, these days

34 Feel bad about 35 Finale

37 Grip tightly

39 “As written”

41 NHL transaction 42 Present and future, e.g. 44 Unbridged area 46 Spanish licorice liqueur

47 Those with clout 48 Next step after 26A has taken place

51 Obsolete VCR format

52 Merry king of rhyme

53 Cut gem feature 56 Rain forest vine 58 Act shrewish 61 How the antagonists in 17A will hopefully live, eventually

64 Beat the pants off

65 Ascorbic acid, for one

66 Gown fabric 67 Loses rigidity 68 Basks in the sun 69 River banks do it

DOWN

1 Figure skater’s feat

2 Aboriginal from the Kuril Islands 3 ___ Dunigan, ex-CFL QB

4 Crucial time in “Hickory Dickory Dock”

5 Pretty big arteries

6 Fallen rock, often 7 Aphrodite’s brother

8 Environs 9 Snake-like fish 10 Delivery result 11 Cedar Rapids’ area

12 Subst. for many names (abbr.)

13 Really uncommon

18 From the sun 19 Rise

23 Make holy 25 Common bandage brand 26 Desert plants 27 L-shaped wrench 28 Many college students have them

29 What kings do daily

30 Rigg of “The Avengers” 31 Punjabi or Bengali, e.g. 32 Expel, anatomically 36 Festoon

38 Spanish dough, until 2002

40 Disapproving audience sounds 43 “Don’t just stand there!”

45 Fake

49 Silvery lead ore 50 Tick by

51 Sugar sources 53 Trees with needles

54 Scarce, small Asian ox

55 Guzzle

57 Part of a conspiracy

58 Mil. alliance since ‘49

59 Alkali neutralizer 60 Hackman of “Unforgiven” 62 Boxer’s doc

63 Van Gogh’s loss