DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1) Cutting comments 6) Impressive degree,

briefly

9) Monthly bill, for many 14) "Nixon In China," for

one

15) Bit of deception

16) Barbecuer's cover-up 17) Type of battery

18) Priestly garb

19) Butcher's stock in

trade

20) Tough chances for

outfielders

23) "If all_ fails ... "

24) Expulsion from office 25) Rocks in a bar

28) Comment from

Homer Simpson

29) "When We Were

Kings" hero

30) Finish a Big Gulp

32) Absurd

34) Assistant

35) Like an equivocal

sword?

41) Shrek, e.g.

42) "Summer of '69"

singer Adams

43) Forcefully urgent 4 7) Performed

48) "Dear" man

51) Prepare to fire

52) A B vitamin

54) _ fide

55) Butcher's tool

58) Sedate

60) Actress Lupino

61) Hawaiian island

62) Multitude or throng 63) Elevator unit

64) Words of agreement

on Sundays

65) Toadies' chorus

66) Cunning

67) Bed on board

DOWN

1) Ordered around

2) Early NASA program 3) Hotdog topper,

sometimes

4) Knee steadier

5) Dress in India 6) Tormenting incessantly 7) Some things to climb 8) Accounting minuses 9) Smartphone feature

10) Impressionist

11) South American

capital city 12) He had a salty wife

13) Annapolis grad's rank,

briefly

21) Baseball legend Ryan 22) Still in its original

packaging

26) "Buffalo" Bill

27) Some farm females 29) Singer Difranco

31) Bowling green?

32) Anything on a list

33) Emulate a tide 35)_-Cola

36) Certain Jamaican fruit 37) Some British

transports

38) Everyday

39) Pulling even with

40) Possessed

44) Places of residence 45) Barely beat

46) Talking points

48) Oklahoma athlete 49) Chant

50) Debonair

53) Kind of wave

54) Hold responsible

56) Take cover

57) Divulge a secret

58) Not outgoing

59) Little piggy