CROSSWORD
This week’s theme is: March Madness. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.
ACROSS
1. Frosting on a cake, e.g. 6. Heat or energy unit 9. *School with most championships 13. Love intensely 14. Dr. Cornelius in sci-fi movie classic, e.g. 15. Like dragon after knight's conquest 16. Copperfield's domain 17. Eating of forbidden fruit, e.g. 18. Total amount 19. *Game tracker 21. In an open way 23. Not vertical, abbr. 24. Be sick 25. Emergency responders 28. Home to Stags Leap and Wild Horse 30. Superlative of "yare" 35. Reluctant, usually followed by "to" 37. A tall one is not true 39. The present occasion 40. U.N. civil aviation agency 41. Rossini's opus, e.g. 43. It travels through air 44. Pulsating pain 46. At a great distance 47. *Final ____ 48. Some give this when upset 50. Drug abuser 52. Dry, as in humor 53. Eagerness 55. Clinton ___ Rodham 57. Famous for its coffee 60. *Goes with March 64. NBC'S "The _____" 65. "___ to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller 67. Become one 68. On the move 69. Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music" 70. Holy See's administering body 71. *Ranking 72. Apollo to ancient Greeks 73. Levels
DOWN
1. Its fleece was white as snow? 2. Sixth month of civil year 3. Downward and upward dogs are part of this 4. _____ Maria Remarque 5. Suppose 6. *Georgetown's conference, "The Big ____" 7. *Ranking based on strength of schedule 8. Major Italian seaport 9. ____ Bator, Mongolia 10. Collect telephone ____ 11. Monet's water flower 12. "___ day now" 15. Novelist ______ Zweig 20. Muse of love poetry 22. Be nosey 24. Deadly or sinister 25. *Like last eight 26. Sweet coffee drink 27. A Beatle 29. Daddy 31. Over your head? 32. To give an income or property 33. Scrub or purge 34. Towel cloth 36. Ungulate's foot 38. Victorian or Elizabethan ones, e.g. 42. *Kentucky's Rupp _____ 45. *______ beater 49. "Big Island" flower necklace 51. Simplify 54. Movie "_____ Came Polly" 56. Boredom 57. Speaker type 58. Baptism, e.g. 59. Important battery component 60. "Cobbler, cobbler, ____ my shoe" 61. Republic of Ireland 62. Done in a pot 63. Ligurian one and Adriatic one 64. Military hospitals 66. Simon & Garfunkel, e.g. © 2012 Statepoint Media