CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Dull-colored
5 Lumberjack’s tool: Var.
8 Gather together
13 Italian city whose name anagrams to “anise”
14 “Star Wars” villain Kylo ___
15 Word before “airplane” or “home”
16 *Butt heads
18 Make up (for)
19 Grown-ups
20 Openly transgender
22 Woodwind that uses treble clef
23 ___ mortal
24 *Architecture or construction
27 Palindromic horn sound
29 Did a 10K, say
30 Bundle of grain
33 Noisy kiss
36 Part of a play
39 *Something that catches you off guard
42 Source of cash
43 Trigonometry ratios
44 Extremely angry
45 Neurologist’s scan, briefly
46 Spanish for “this”
48 *Evade conviction
53 Adele or Cher, vocally
57 Opposite of exo
58 Dress code requirement, at times
59 Hosted a show
61 Contribute to the mix
63 Directly in your path, or a hint to what can precede each starred answer’s first word
65 Wafer cookie brand
66 Summer hrs. on Cape Cod
67 School year segments
68 Costly
69 Pastrami bread
70 ___ Pie (popular ice cream bar)
DOWN
1 The “D” of LED
2 Happen repeatedly
3 Piece of low art, informally?
4 Thai money
5 Cry from a pirate
6 Noble gas in arc lamps
7 Come after
8 Physician’s org.
9 The Supremes’ record label
10 Chicken ___ (Filipino dish)
11 Mister, in Mexico City
12 Smooth and glossy
13 Shut loudly
17 Munch Museum’s Scandinavian capital
21 Flashlight, to a Brit
25 “Challenge accepted!”
26 Pretend to know what you’re doing
28 Compensate for
30 Org. for momand-pop stores
31 Like the weather in Florida, often
32 Stately tree
34 Mrs., in Marseille
35 Flummoxed
36 Pie ___ mode
37 Director’s cry
38 Casual top
40 “Correct!”
41 Raised for discussion
45 French for “star”
47 Raced
48 Coffee grinder inputs
49 Send a breakup text, say
50 Confuse
51 Duck with downy feathers
52 Like a swamp with many plants
54 Apprehensive
55 Squads
56 10 to 1, e.g.
60 Down Under pal
62 Nod off briefly
64 Had a snack