This week’s theme is the 19TH CENTURY.

Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.

ACROSS 1. Plant life 6. OB-GYN test 9. What the Big Bad Wolf did 13. Couch 14. Hit the slopes 15. #1 Across partner 16. North African inhabitants 17. *He patented the saxophone in 1846 18. Inflexible 19. *Queen Victoria’s other half 21. Flying high 23. U.N. workers’ grp. 24. “Rhinestone Cowboy” singer 25. Seasonal blues 28. As opposed to stereo 30. Like having pH less than 7 35. Climbed down 37. Beverage usually served hot 39. Swelling 40. Nessie’s abode 41. *Nicholas I and Alexander III 43. Distinctive flair 44. Beforehand 46. *The Three Musketeers, e.g. 47. Singular of “algae” 48. *Famous HMS Beagle voyager 50. *“William ____ Overture” 52. Costa del ___ 53. Talk like a sailor? 55. Ice-T on “Law & Order: SVU” 57. *The Great _______ in Ireland 60. *Sitting Bull’s tribe 63. Like Cheerios 64. *“The Murders in the ___ Morgue” 66. Give a boot 68. Antler point 69. Geological Society of America 70. Hawaiian island 71. First-rate 72. *van Gogh severed his left one 73. Live snowmen?

DOWN

1. Governmental approver 2. *Italian money starting in 1861 3. Face shape 4. Teacher of Torah 5. Founder of Scholasticism 6. Quiet attention grabber 7. Rap sheet abbreviation 8. Resolution dot 9. Fisherman’s fly, e.g. 10. *Sled sport, originated in 1800s 11. Author Bagnold 12. Roll of bills 15. *Louisiana Purchase seller 20. Fowl place 22. Grassland 24. Soap Box Derby vehicles 25. Tossed starter 26. Luau greeting 27. Kitchen device 29. *a.k.a. Father of the American Cartoon 31. Brainchild 32. Small valleys with trees and grass 33. Idealized image 34. *Erie or Suez 36. Spring event 38. One of Great Lakes 42. Solfège syllables: 5th and 4th 45. Cutting into cubes 49. Convent dweller 51. Probable 54. Type of twill fabric 56. Star bursts 57. Betting game 58. Perching place 59. ____ room 60. Shakespeare’s king 61. Windshield option 62. Palm tree berry 63. Pick 65. *This country declared war on Britain in 1812 67. “___ the season . . .”