CROSSWORD
This week’s theme is: ALL ABOUT WEATHER. Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are theme-related. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.
ACROSS
1. Request to Geico, e.g.
6. Short for oftentimes
9. Plague carrier
13. *Like a plant in Zone 2
14. Column's counterpart
15. Exclude
16. *More bitterly cold
17. Computer-generated imagery
18. One of Florida Keys
19. *Fahrenheit alternative
21. Nanking cotton
23. Make weblike fabric
24. Giant Himalayan
25. Geological time period
28. Russian parliament
30. Join the military
35. 100-meter ____
37. One in a million
39. Crude commodity transporter
40. Icelandic epic
41. Rock bottom
43. Aquarium scum
44. Sends
46. Foal's mother
47. Tear violently
48. *A blast from the North Pole
50. Belgian port, in Dutch
52. Fish eggs
53. T on a test
55. "____ we there
yet?"
57. *End-of-summer
61. *Average weather pattern
65. Theater guide
66. ET's craft
68. Capital of Ghana
69. Large numbers
70. Have a cold
71. Audition tapes
72. Little piggies?
73. Bulb type
74. Like a disreputable neighborhood
DOWN
1. Swanky
2. Fabric related to #23 Across
3. Seed covering
4. "That is," to an Ancient Roman
5. Indefinitely large number
6. Tolkien villains
7. *Cause of low visibility
8. Strong string
9. "Don't give me any ____!"
10. Plural of lira
11. U2 guitarist
12. Longest division of time
15. *a.k.a. The Little Boy
20. Driver's 180
22. Had a meal
24. Distance to a golfer
25. Swelling
26. *Meteorologist's tool
27. Echo sounder
29. Madam, to a cowboy
31. Baron Munchhausen, e.g.
32. Sicker
33. Repeat, in music
34. *____ winds
36. "Stop!" to marchers
38. De Valera's land
42. Kidney-related
45. Hindustani guitar, pl.
49. "____, the Beloved Country"
51. "The Three Stooges" and "Peter, Paul and Mary," e.g.
54. "The ____" to a bartender
56. Wedding singer, e.g.
57. *____ Bowl
58. Nobel Peace Prize capital
59. Clarified butter
60. *What grass does in the morning
61. *Kind of front
62. Crowning point
63. Trampled
64. Not difficult
67. Exclamation of disgust