CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Toward the setting sun 5 Pasta served at Sicilian weddings 9 Clever 14 You’ll get a hand for it 15 Since 16 South American beast with a snout 17 *Monastic updo? (note how an “R” sound moves in each starred answer) 19 ___ and kicking 20 One may nest on a cliff 21 *Whiskey drinker’s laundry problem? 23 LP speed 24 MDs 27 Had in common 28 Datum such as AQI 30 List units 33 Rage 34 Be against 36 Lieu 38 *Arizona and Nevada, compared to Louisiana and Florida? 40 They work with feet and meters 42 Composer Gustav or Alma 43 Choose 44 Bit of mental warfare, briefly 45 Reduce to a pulp 49 Look (for) 52 Summer hrs. in most states 54 Question of identity 55 *Reaction to a courtroom punch? 58 Spanish for “now” 60 Literary crowd member? 61 *Cook who puts grains in the oven? 64 Took a loss 65 Shapeless shape 66 Obscene 67 Complete makeovers 68 Undesirable roommate 69 Finishes
DOWN
1 Sandwich cookie parts 2 Mesmerized 3 Mark of disgrace 4 Bluish color on a certain duck 5 Electricity sound 6 Prefix with “thermal” or “metric” 7 Guided excursion 8 Doubtful 9 Store covertly 10 Country in the Mediterranean 11 Places to manage workers? 12 Mediterranean resort area 13 Got popular online 18 Common color for salsa 22 Road curve shape 25 Unlike a green banana 26 Weather alert subjects 29 Civil wrong 31 Piece of writing that sounds like its third and fourth letters 32 System 35 Letters after omicrons 36 Jeanne d’Arc, e.g.: Abbr. 37 Bit of jargon 38 Full of specifics 39 European peaks 40 After a peace treaty is signed 41 Perform surgery 44 Vietnamese soup 46 Already roused 47 Sagacious 48 Miser’s collections 50 The “R” of NPR 51 Devonshire cream features 53 Bill for Bloody Marys 56 Planets, poetically 57 Stuff with stuff 59 In good shape 62 Sound like a pigeon 63 Go back, as the tide