DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1) Mentally acute 6) Masseuse employer 9) "Otherwise ... "

14) Minute amounts

15) Female turkey

16) "If a tree falls in the

forest and "

17) Adjective for a he-man 19) Bonehead

20) Kind of card

21) Writer Kesey

22) Cried out, as in pain 23) Like some mounted

diamonds

26) Silly prank

27) Features of some

thermostats and cars 31) Consolation prize

recipients

34) Egyptian cross

35) Love handles,

essentially

36) "Joie de vivre"

37) Moneypenny's trio 38) Round flatbread

39) Zinger deliverer

40) Fiddling with a bow 42) "I couldn't care less"

attitude

44) Marathon at Camden

Yards

47) Bose product 48) Dead end

52) Become conscious 54) Move on snow

55) Treat, as a hide

56) Words to a hitchhiker 57) David Lynch TV series 60) Big-time social

gathering

61) Contained

62) Goodbye, in Aries

63) Wetland plant

64) Trip for a narcissist? 65) Be the_ for wear

DOWN

1) Shankar's instrument 2) Book category 3) Makeup of matter 4) The "so few" Churchill referred to

5) Letters on tires 6) "Fiddler on the Roof'

setting

7) Ball-_ hammer

8) "_ I quote ... "9) Comprehensive

10) More disgusting

11) Charitable organiza

tion, often

12) "Going_, going ... "

13)_ off(angry)

18) Cold-water shorebirds 22) Give a good tug 24) Genesis garden

25) Mangy mutt

26) Inmates

28) Birch bark boat

29) Groundwork for

plaster

30) Order to a dog

31) Like blue limericks 32) Eclectic assortment 33) Soaked through and

through

37) Sound in an empty

room

38) "Chute" or "mount"

attachment

40) Somewhat firm,

as pasta

41) Equestrian's strap 42) _ asst. (office aide) 43) Cheerleader's asset 45) Using the oven

46) Japanese martial art 49) Landing connector 50) "Goodness_ alive!" 51) Follow afterward

52) A G rating admits

them all

53) Fairly common

contraction

54) Ill-gotten gain

57) Common title word 58) Furry foot

59) Tokyo, once