CROSSWORD
This week’s theme is: SUMMER FUN. Clues marked with an asterisk (*) are theme-related. Solution in next week’s Rappahannock News. ACROSS
1. *Kids’ getaway, pl.
6. School org.
9. Inoffensive manner
13. ____ Heep of “David Copperfield”
14. *Corn unit
15. Cuckoo for what puffs?
16. Charleston, e.g.
17. Genetic info carrier, acr.
18. Bornean ape
19. *Beachwear
21. *Popular U-pick fruit, pl.
23. *Water sport equipment
24. Drug abuser
25. Scholastic aptitude test
28. Fastened with stitches
30. Type of discrimination
35. Tongue-____
37. Musical finale
39. Slow, musically speaking
40. Dramatic part
41. Fielding mistake
43. Bulgarian, e.g.
44. Richard Bachman to Stephen King
46. Carte du jour
47. Sushi restaurant libation
48. *Gastronomic outing
50. Email folder
52. Like Tom Thumb
53. Bathtime bubbles
55. Philosophical system
57. *Chilled brew
61. *It’s out for summer
64. Monetary worth
65. Kum Ba ____
67. More ill
69. Tanks and such
70. Nurses’ org.
71. Reason to strike
72. Nessie’s loch
73. To the ____ degree
74. Moves like a pony
DOWN
1. Something to chew on
2. Speedy steed
3. Like a tennis skirt
4. Puts in a backpack
5. Arabic elders
6. ____meter or ____ scope
7. *Limited with SPF
8. Plural of #2 Down
9. Millimeter of mercury
10. Antioxidant-rich berry
11. *Soft-serve server
12. ##
15. Cattle pen
20. Daughter of a sibling
22. Always, in verse
24. Disrobe
25. Spaghetti ____
26. Garlic mayonnaise
27. Denoting the final purpose
29. Live bait
31. ____pool
32. Donald Trump to Jared Kushner
33. *Garden bean support
34. *Blockbuster
36. Kind of principal
38. Popular steak condiment
42. Relating to runes
45. Train’s “Hey, Soul ____”
49. Pool stick
51. *Warm-weather garb
54. Israeli statesman Moshe
56. Food grinder
57. Rocky’s nemesis ____ Drago
58. Kind of package
59. Trees of genus Ulmus
60. Sonny and Cher and Abbott and Costello
61. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, e.g.
62. Hodgepodge
63. “____ we forget”
66. *Unwelcome guest at #48 Across
68. High ____, as in an image