CROSSWORD

This week’s theme is: THE OSCARS. Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are theme-related. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News.

ACROSS

1. Can’t stomach

6. Styling goo

9. Hightailed it

13. Ten million, in India

14. “____ takers?”

15. Like a girl

16. Spanish small plates

17. School of thought suffix

18. Pay hike

19. *Oscar nominated meet-the-parents thriller

21. *He played Getty

23. Right-angle building extension

24. Splints site

25. Mammoth site, e.g.

28. Write on a tombstone

30. Self-centeredness

35. Land measure

37. Crucifix

39. “Sesame Street” regular

40. *In 1992 De Niro was nominated for “Cape ____”

41. *Best category

43. Tiresias in “Oedipus Rex”

44. Desert mirage

46. S-shaped molding

47. Dionysus’ party

48. “____ the unexpected”

50. Celestial bear

52. Rolodex abbr.

53. Purple precipitation

55. Before, old English

57. *Evacuation location

61. *Olympic hopeful’s story

64. Deprive of weapons

65. *Sarandon was nominated for “Lorenzo’s ____” in 1993

67. Unfit

69. Like anchor aweigh

70. Zilch

71. *Cathy Bates’ or Louise Fletcher's role

72. Google ____

73. Bro's sibling

74. Had supper

DOWN

1. *Do this and hope for an Oscar?

2. Toot one’s horn

3. *18-time Oscar host

4. Speak from a podium

5. Fix a shoe

6. Manner of walk

7. Ensign, for short

8. Bodily fluid

9. Thailand, once

10. “____ and proper”

11. Additional

12. Indigo user

15. Nirvana genre

20. Extremist

22. Bald-faced ____

24. “I call passenger seat!”

25. *“The Florida Project” nominee

26. Mountaineer’s tool

27. Comprehend

29. *Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song nominee

31. Guesstimate phrase

32. Apathetic

33. Lay ____ to a castle

34. *21-time nominee

36. Albany-Buffalo canal

38. Opposite of talker?

42. Button on electrical outlet

45. Economize

49. Feather glue

51. Ray Charles’ “Mess ____”

54. Paintings in an Orthodox church

56. Boredom

57. Two of the same

58. “Do ____ others...”

59. Narcotics agent

60. “Me and Bobby McGee” singersongwriter

61. Ailments

62. Spinner’s product

63. Altar location

66. *J. Paul Getty’s grandson

68. Ideas worth spreading, acr.