CROSSWORD

This week’s theme is: COMIC BOOK

VILLAINS. Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are theme-related. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.

ACROSS

1. Coffee + chocolate

6. “____ the season ...”

9. ____ ex machina

13. Tim or Woody

14. Thou, today

15. *Fire or Fear or Mortis or Death

16. “_____ came the spider...”

17. Pimple fluid

18. Two under par

19. *X-Men’s mutant foe

21. *____ Quinn

23. Aladdin’s alias

24. Piglet sound

25. Irish folk dance

28. Sultanate on Arabian Peninsula

30. Farm tool

35. Fail to mention

37. Crumbs

39. Nary a soul

40. Curly-leafed cabbage

41. Betty Ford Center, e.g.

43. Pacific Islands’ ceremonial drink

44. Opposite of digest

46. “Que Sera ____”

47. Revered one

48. Team list

50. “Cliffs Notes,” e.g.

52. Phone card acronym

53. A grand theft

55. Charged particle

57. *Norman Osborn’s organization

60. *“Spider-Man” villainous doctor

64. Last European

colony in China

65. Belonging to you and me

67. Tennis great Chris ____

68. Like anchor aweigh

69. Springsteen’s “Born in the ____”

70. Join companies

71. *Deathstroke is an enemy of the “___ Titans”

72. ____ Aviv

73. Human necessity

DOWN

1. Hat-tipper’s word

2. Paella pot

3. Heidi’s “Magic Wooden Shoe”

4. Temporary tattoo ink

5. Angel, in Rome

6. Editor’s oversight

7. Debtor’s letter

8. Uncooked seafood

9. Like Jekyll and Hyde’s personality

10. *Superman enemy, Morgan ____

11. Like Andersen’s duckling

12. Perceive

15. “Game of Thrones” vest

20. Sea near Australia

22. It marches?

24. One always busy and moving

25. *“Batman” foe

26. Idealized image

27. Rupert ____ from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

29. *Wonder Woman’s nemesis

31. *Thor’s brother

32. Dump truck quantities

33. End of a poem

34. Camelot to King Arthur

36. Reason to cram

38. Delhi dress

42. Early computer language

45. *What villains of the Suicide Squad did

49. “The Murders in the ___ Morgue”

51. Native American sacred objects

54. Rainbow swimmer

56. Fictitious prose

57. Love-____ relationship

58. 43,560 square feet

59. Street in Anytown, USA

60. Like word of mouth

61. Fils’ father

62. Strong desire

63. Flight segment

64. Yoga accessory

66. Wear and tear