Crossword
ACROSS
1 Suitable for growing crops
7 Rain unit
11 4x4, for short
14 Song with a story
15 Ephesus’ region
17 Hamburger Hill setting, briefly
18 L
20 Long order
21 Teacher’s note
22 Sparkling flapper accessory
24 Cobblers’ tools
27 M
31 Dumbledore and Snape, in brief
33 Range rover
34 Military meal
35 __ rasa
37 Clarinet, e.g.
39 F
45 Somewhat, to Salieri
46 “Circus Sideshow” pointillist
48 General vibe
52 Traditional doings
55 Skylit lobbies
56 R
59 George Harrison’s “__ It a Pity”
60 Kit Kat component
61 Capital served by the Queen Alia International Airport
63 Ballpark fig.
64 Secret message technique ... and a hint to four puzzle clues
71 Pulitzer novelist Harper
72 Strainer
73 Madrid-based airline
74 Vehicle for some trips
75 It has a head and hops
76 Ankle-related
DOWN
1 Simple comparison
2 Fan noise
3 Like
4 Like ignorance, at times
5 “Stay in your __!”
6 Ranger or Corsair
7 Compilation
8 Bulg. neighbor
9 Half of eleven?
10 Wall map insert
11 Nader’s “__ at Any Speed”
12 Alphabetically penultimate zodiac sign
13 Places in a cell
16 Alaskan site of the only WWII battle on U.S. soil
19 Layers of big eggs
23 School of thought
24 Quick
25 Stop shooting
26 Timber wolf
28 Fork-tailed flier
29 Coral habitat
30 Some Blizzard ingredients
32 Place to park a clipper
36 Scrat’s obsession in “Ice Age” films
38 De Matteo of “The Sopranos”
40 Juul product, briefly
41 Ninth Greek letter
42 Fletcher Christian, for one
43 Does as humans do?
44 Sprinkle, perhaps
47 Skin pic
48 In addition to that
49 Czar’s decrees
50 Traveled like Huck and Jim
51 Bolted down
53 Tip for fixing mistakes?
54 Highway behemoth
57 Camera part
58 Gamut
62 Daughter in “The Time Traveler’s Wife”
65 Spoonbill’s bill
66 Angled formation
67 “__ gotta run!”
68 Collection agcy.
69 Peeples seen in People
70 Actor Penn