CROSSWORD | Gardening

ACROSS

1. Betting probability

5. Once headed by J. Edgar Hoover

8. Formally surrender

12. Gravy holder

13. Nile dweller, for short

14. More certain

15. Tiny bit

16. a. k. a. Bruce Banner

17. One who plies one’s trade

18. *” Days to ____,” on a seed packet

20. Big- ticket ____

21. Apartments, e. g.

22. * Plumerias are often used in this Hawaiian greeting

23. Scrooge’s visitors

26. Digging into

30. What Carl Lewis did

31. Bestow

34. Month before Nisan

35. Dress with a flare

37. Choler

38. On a store tag

39. Central points

40. Paul Reubens’ Herman

42. Mother lode stuff

43. African bloodsucking pests

45. Salty dogs

47. Current tense of # 30 Across

48. Retches

50. Bovine cries

52. * Like an aggressive weed

55. Frustration, in a comic book

56. * Holds a plant stem to a support

57. Type of hot sandwich

59. One born to Japanese immigrants

60. Urban legends, e. g.

61. Check out

62. Shakespeare’s “at another time”

63. “The ____ Who Loved Me”

64. * Flower’s location after a garden?

DOWN

1. Kimono closer

2. Banish to Hades

3. Crunched numbers

4. Facebook’s update feature

5. * Seed plant’s harvest

6. * Goes to seed

7. Rotten and stinky

8. * Plant variety

9. Famous canal

10. Hold as a conviction

11. Make a blunder

13. Church service oil

14. Salesman’s speech, e. g.

19. Loosen laces

22. Tennis do- over

23. * Splice, to a gardener

24. Nimbi on ikons

25. In the cooler ( 2 words)

26. Former Saint Brees

27. “Pulling my leg,” e. g.

28. Mother- of- pearl

29. *Kind of thumb

32. Pizzeria output, pl.

33. “____ you kidding?”

36. * N in N- P- K

38. Sneaked glances

40. Slammer

41. “The Shawshank Redemption” theme

44. Served raw

46. Isaac of science fiction

48. This Dogg can rap

49. What Elton John tickles, sing.

50. Street in Anytown, USA

51. Guesstimate phrase ( two words)

52. Bodily disorders

53. Lope de ____, Spanish playwright

54. Building extensions

55. Nurses’ org.

58. ____ time in golf