Crossword by Myles Mellor & Sally York
Across
1. Animal’s home
5. Comet’s path
10. Chef’s measure
14. Eight: Prefix
15. “Walk the Line” actress, Witherspoon
16. With the bow, in music
17. Came down to earth
18. “Moll Flanders” novelist
19. Concrete
20. Forced one’s way
23. Bodybuilder’s pride
24. “___ of Eden”
25. Central Russian city
26. Imp
30. “Avatar” extras
31. Decline
34. Gastric woe
35. “Oh, Lady Be Good!” singer Fitzgerald
37. Welfare, with “the”
38. Control to get through obstacles to a goal
41. Conclusion starter
42. Actor Roger of “Cheers”
43. Listlessness
44. Barney on “The Simpsons,” for one
45. “___ the ramparts ...”
46. Contractions
47. “Ghostbusters” director Reitman
48. Government lending
group’s
50. Big load
52. Area of electromagnetic influence
58. Singer India
60. Metal ball
61. Barker
62. Bring down the house
63. Takes it easy
64. Come down hard
65. Cassini of fashion
66. Black key
67. Penpoints
Down
1. Rich soil
2. Censorship-fighting org.
3. “How sweet ___!”
4. Campus military org.
5. Big test
6. Marsh growth
7. Suit
8. “Help ___ the way!”
9. Abstain completely
10. Driveway material
11. NFL plays that fall apart
12. Beginning of healing, sometimes
13. Campaigners, for short
21. Discover
22. Mantra syllables
26. Corrodes
27. Despite, poetically
28. Examine in detail
29. Boardroom V.I.P.’s
30. Architectural addons, sometimes
32. Small intestine division
33. Beautiful fairies of Persian myth
35. America’s Cup, e.g.
36. “Hips Don’t ___” Shakira
37. Corleone’s wife
39. French skiing city
40. For 2005 holding top position in CSD share position in C stores
45. Big galoot
46. Least risky
48. Narrow racing boat
49. Ending to Ara or Isa
50. Member of the arum family
51. Kind of account
53. Good vantage point
54. “Baseball Tonight” channel
55. Sainted pope called “the Great”
56. Paint
57. Some cameras, for short
59. Brain scan, for short