This week’s theme is WORLD HISTORY.

Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.

ACROSS

1. Mosque officials 6. H in HMS 9. *J. Edgar Hoover, e.g. 13. Dugout vessel 14. Australian flightless bird 15. Fairytale baby carrier 16. Irregular or jagged 17. Any doctrine 18. Baskerville’s scare 19. *He crossed the Rubicon 21. *Darwin’s watercraft 23. Small dog’s bark 24. Two quarters 25. ___-cha-cha 28. Miami Heat star 30. Go ashore 35. Red ink amount 37. Sophia Lauren’s “bye” 39. *She ran for VP 40. Yorkshire river 41. Brings home the bacon 43. Pro ___ 44. Milk-Bone biscuit, e.g. 46. Render speechless 47. Largest organ of human body 48. *Third Reich mastermind 50. Biblical birthright seller 52. Message in a bottle 53. Small municipality 55. Boiling blood 57. *Author of “95 Theses” 60. *The Black Death 63. Hungarian wine 64. U.N. workingconditions agency 66. Crows’ homes 68. Addicts 69. Feather’s partner? 70. *The New York Times’ first one came out in 1851 71. Midterm or final 72. Farm female 73. Courtyards

DOWN

1. Berg matter 2. Painter ____ Chagall 3. Dwarf buffalo 4. Promenade gait 5. Plaything for two 6. *Edward VI to Henry VIII, e.g. 7. Ambulance crew 8. Dance of Castro’s land 9. Hot rum drink 10. Sledgehammer 11. *Mother of Queen Elizabeth I 12. Flanders of “The Simpsons” 15. Rubs 20. Rapidly 22. A late time of life 24. Embolden 25. Used for cleaning 26. Alluring maiden 27. Portfolio content 29. *First European to round Cape of Good Hope 31. In front of criminals 32. Middle Eastern vodka, pl. 33. 4:1, e.g. 34. *Kublai and Genghis 36. Navy commando 38. Blame 42. Creepy one 45. Aquatic goddess 49. *___ v Wade 51. Muse of astronomy, descendant of Uranus 54. What scribes do 56. Opposite of digest 57. *Germany did it in WWI and WWII 58. Hawaiian strings, pl. 59. Queen of Hearts’ pastry 60. Minute opening 61. *Communist threat, 1922-1991 62. Small ornamental case 63. *New Kingdom’s boypharaoh 65. *Hammurabi's concern 67. Last word of “America, the Beautiful”