CROSSWORD
This week’s theme is the
THINK SPRING. Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are theme-related. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.
ACROSS
1. Boat load 6. Line of work 9. Stairway alternative 13. Hitler's mistress 14. High or low card 15. Country on Samoan Islands 16. Stiff hair or bristles 17. Kan. neighbor 18. Holy See loyalist practicing different rites 19. *Daylight ____ time 21. *Spring is a symbol of this 23. Much of this about nothing? 24. "Stop!" to marchers 25. Feather glue 28. World's largest continent 30. To show off 35. Functions 37. Jittery 39. End of a poem 40. *Before you spring clean you make one? 41. Manet's and Gauguin's contemporary 43. Seaside bird 44. *"Spring to mind" or "Spring into action," e.g. 46. Table mineral 47. Equal 48. Correspondence friend 50. Part of ROM 52. *Spring is a cure for ____, acr. 53. As opposed to "want" 55. Pine juice 57. *Vernal event 61. *Japanese spring blossom 64. Knucklehead 65. Wear and tear 67. Made cow noise 69. Old hat 70. June honoree 71. Muscat resident 72. #23 Across, pl. 73. Mama sheep 74. Relating to Scandinavia
DOWN
1. *Masters Tournament network 2. Mars, to the Greeks 3. "Pro" follower 4. Exotic jelly flavor 5. Iroquois tribe 6. "More ____ for the buck" 7. *It dissipates in spring 8. Striped equine 9. Raja's wife 10. Gulf V.I.P. 11. Castle's line of defense 12. Beaten by walkers 15. Difficult to detect 20. Red-____ like Rudolph 22. Hermey the dentist, e.g. 24. Wasted-looking 25. *Popular spring flower 26. Comment to the audience 27. Pine product 29. *____ of March, or March 15 31. "The ____ Go Marching" 32. Part of eye containing iris, pl. 33. Marilyn Monroe's given name 34. Pronged, as in three-____ fork 36. "Cut that out!" 38. Ivy League school 42. Bills under mattress 45. Like "The Martian" mission 49. DiCaprio to his friends? 51. Nature spirit in Greek mythology 54. Ooze out 56. Movie trailer, e.g. 57. Cocoyam 58. Leg muscle 59. "Do ____ others as..." 60. Frosts a cake 61. Formally surrender 62. Lion's warning 63. Strong desires 66. Horror movie series 68. One of a set of dice