CROSSWORD
This week’s theme is: AMERICAN WILDLIFE. Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are theme-related. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.
ACROSS
1. Upright monument
6. Likewise
9. *Eagle’s talon
13. *Entrances to groundhogs’ burrows
14. Objective male pronoun
15. CuraÁao neighbor
16. Islam’s Supreme Being
17. A in IPA
18. More silent
19. *Beaver-like rodent
21. *a.k.a Brown bear
23. Popular Thanksgiving tuber
24. SWAT attack
25. Between game and match
28. O. Henry’s “The Gift of the ___”
30. Make numb
35. ____sack
37. Drinks through a straw
39. Red Sea peninsula
40. Beyond natural
41. Single-mast boat
43. Soda pop recyclables
44. Little Boy and Fat Man
46. Way, way off
47. “Cogito ____ sum”
48. It’s meant to be
50. *Great leaper
52. Who’s from Mars?
53. Not that
55. Bobby sox dance
57. *Nocturnal mask wearer?
61. “Red sky at night, sailor’s ____”
65. Cool & distant
66. Public health approver
68. One who dares
69. Reg. alternative
70. Singer-songwriter Stewart
71. Accustom
72. One of many in an arena
73. “Four score and seven years ____”
74. Norbert, to his momma?
DOWN
1. Pillow that’s not for sleeping
2. Cough syrup balsam
3. Corner pieces
4. Prone to communicate secret info
5. Hindu retreat
6. Not this
7. Tin Man’s necessity
8. Last letter of Greek alphabet
9. Actress Penelope
10. Figure skating jump
11. Cain’s unfortunate brother
12. Extra cautious
15. NaNH2 and H3CONH2, e.g.
20. What hoarders do
22. Human cage part
24. Heists
25. *Striped stinker
26. Boredom
27. Flyer holders
29. *Desert monster
31. Likable
32. Take a piece from
33. Canine affliction
34. *a.k.a. buffalo
36. Poe’s “Annabel Lee“, e.g.
38. *Fly like an eagle
42. Nasa mission, e.g.
45. Depart
49. Short for although
51. *Not Bald one but ____
54. Prefix with red
56. Baby grand
57. X-ray units
58. Away from wind
59. Kind of cola
60. *Snowshoe’s seasonal change
61. Carpenter’s groove
62. *Earthworms to a badger, e.g.
63. Lemongrass, e.g.
64. 3-point shot
67. *Prairie ____