TODAY’S CROSSWORD

CLUES ACROSS

1. Powder mineral

5. Ten million (in India) 10. Culture medium and a gelling agent

14. Cain and __

15. Bullfighting maneuvers 16. Baseball’s Ruth

17. Venice beach

18. Infirm due to old age 19. Attentiveness

20. Mortify

22. Whale (Norwegian) 23. Family Bufonidae 24. “A Passage to India” author 27. Ocean 30. Dad’s partner 31. Owned 32. Swiss river 35. Female golf star Gibson 37. Base

38. A way to summons 39. Acquit

40. Male parent

41. Brendan Francis __, author

42. Rattan

43. Aromatic hot beverage 44. Inflorescence 45. Former CIA 46. Make lace 47. Airborne (abbr.) 48. Thieving bird 49. H. Potter’s creator 52. Frequency 55. Nothing 56. More lucid 60. Riding mount 61. Deducted container weight 63. Molten rock 64. In this place 65. Ancient upright stone slab bearing markings 66. Rumanian Mures River city

67. Mentioned before 68. An heir (civil law)

69. Without (French)

CLUES DOWN

1.W. Samoan monetary unit 2. Baby’s feeding apparel 3. Queen of Sparta

4. Shut

5. Certified public accountant

6. Payment for release 7. Red twig dogwood 8. Basked in

9. Midway between E and SE

10. A way to detest

11. Mother of Cronus 12. In bed

13. Bolsheviks

21. Farro wheat

23. CNN’s Turner

25. Farmers of America 26. Small amount

27. __ and Venzetti

28. Hers in Spanish

29. Belongs to sun god 32. Expressed pleasure 33. Small terrestrial lizard 34. Regenerate

36. Own (Scottish)

37. The cry made by sheep 38. Chest muscle (slang) 40. Explode

41. Notice

43. Pitch

44. Run due to the batter 46. Fight referee declares 47. Alternate forms of a gene 49. Shifted in sailing

50. One who cables

51. Elaborate celebrations 52. Expresses pleasure 53. Carbamide

54. Persian in Afghanistan 57. 1st capital of Japan 58. Welsh for John

59. Radioactivity units 61. Tanzanian shilling 62. Hyrax