CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Problems for directors
5 At a quick rate, poetically
10 Some precipitation
14 Eye layer
15 ’70s White House name
16 Shoppers’ bag
17 Easily achieved goals
20 Dark
21 Aspen features
22 Whacks
25 Insult but good
26 After-hours school gp.
29 Common welcomers
31 Last name for an unbalanced egghead?
35 ___ Gabriel
36 Very angry
38 Buffalo’s canal
39 It may be needed to be an NFL player
43 Cause of some shivers
44 Begin an internet session
45 3-D hospital procedure
46 Pungent condiment
49 Duck’s domain
50 Stereotypically stubborn animal
51 Minnow variety
53 Bygone despot
55 Some kind of nut
58 Pigeon’s perch
62 Weaponry that’s neither large nor small
65 Black cat, to some
66 Chose not to dine out
67 ___ vera
68 British title
69 Year-end tunes
70 Some evergreens
DOWN
1 Streaming service
2 Shakespeare’s river
3 Cry like a baby
4 Colonial title in India
5 ___ Arbor
6 “Animal Farm” critter
7 Line on a graph
8 Hits on the head
9 Decorate with gold leaf
10 Played a banjo, in a way
11 It may be proper in a sentence
12 Mayberry’s self-jailer
13 Moist
18 Type of energy
19 German wife
23 “Legal” prefix
24 Drag one’s feet
26 “Don’t give me that!” old-style
27 Evergreen-forested landscape
28 Black ___ (cattle breed)
30 Posture problem
32 Donna’s intro?
33 Stadium features
34 Abominable creatures
37 Cereal grain killer
40 It’s designed to get your attention
41 Charged particles
42 Ultimate object
47 Hindu Mr.
48 “The ___ Cometh”
52 A Muse
54 Pass on in a race, as a baton
55 Disaster relief grp.
56 Footnote word
57 Leaves home?
59 Take-out order?
60 Shoot up
61 Storm centers
62 Like hip Brits in the ’60s
63 “Shop ___ you drop”
64 ___ and outs