CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Relaxing retreat

4 Picket line crosser

8 Tied, as sneakers

13 Work like heck

15 Arrived

16 Old piano key

material

17 European car brand that sounds sort of like a Western greeting

18 Ordered like

dictionary words

20 *The Bible’s

golden calf, e.g.

22 Sound of fear

23 Roadside haven

24 About 1/2000th

of a euro, in 2002

26 *Giving a higher mark than students deserve

33 Slimy substance

34 Dolphin family

“killer”

35 Inventor Otis

36 Roman moon

goddess

38 Tease

40 Site of Napoleon’s

exile

41 Where Amin ruled

44 Puffin relatives

47 Geological time

span

48 *It’s not always the same as one’s assigned sex at birth

51 What a coach gives a base runner

52 Corn unit

53 Suffix with script

56 *Intuition, often

62 Cape Cod and

Baja

64 Former Neet rival

65 Two in a deck

66 Evening, in ads 67 Required bet

68 Rubbed out,

gang-style

69 NBA conference

70 USO show audience ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues

DOWN 1 2

Male deer Serve the wine, say

3 Verdi classic

4 Medical diagnostic device

5 Colombian

metropolis

6 Alarm clock

toggle

7 On __ of:

representing 8 Loose, like a

translation

9 D.C.’s

Pennsylvania, e.g.

10 Pigeon shelter

11 Shallowest Great

Lake

12 Flemish painter Sir Anthony van __

14 Wife of Augustus

19 Light-footed

21 Prefix with scope

25 “It’s __”: “Nobody

wins”

26 Charge triple,

say

27 Journalist Farrow

28 “Disgusting!”

29 Water nymph

30 Speck in the

ocean

31 “That’s exciting!”

32 Indian bread 33 Water cooler

sound

37 “No ifs, __ or buts”

39 Payable now

42 Condescended

43 Jason’s

shipbuilder

45 Israeli parliament

46 RBI or ERA

49 On key

50 Russian supermodel Shayk

53 High hairstyle

54 Great Barrier __

55 Plenty,

phonetically

57 Pelvic bones

58 D.C. baseball

team

59 Vietnam’s Da __

60 Banking giant

61 Uno y dos

63 Rapper __ Cube