CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Oktoberfest mugs

7 Possessed

12 Battleship letters

15 Sit-up kin

16 Letter-shaped violin opening

17 “Picked” complaint

18 *Gift basket retailer known for cheese and smoked sausage

20 __-la-la

21 Director Brooks

22 Soccer family rides

23 More frigid

25 Lyrical

27 *Oktoberfest venues

31 “What’s up, __?”

33 Unlike Bond’s martini

34 Wunderkind

37 Highchair fashion

38 Seehorn of “Better Call Saul”

42 *Robin Williams drama set at a prep school

46 Actress Hathaway

47 Texter’s caveat

48 Edit

49 Xylophone kin

53 Went first

54 *Classic Ford model

58 Window ledge

61 Low voice

62 Hammer target

64 Campground chain HQ’d in Billings, MT

65 Natural resource

66 Essentials, or what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are

71 Broadcaster with regular pledge drives

72 Deep-seated

73 Military gesture

74 Shaved head?

75 Skewered appetizer served with peanut sauce

76 Seismic event

DOWN

1 Hard-to-like person

2 Did one’s best

3 Type of geometry

4 Ballpoint pen filler

5 GIs with chevrons

6 Landscaping bush

7 Compensate for

8 “Huh ... ?”

9 Fin. neighbor

10 Stately tree

11 Long for

12 Disentangle

13 Warning signal

14 Plays the lead

19 First name in

fashion

24 Outmoded data

readers on PCs

26 Denounces

28 Corduroy ridges

29 Pinot __: white

wine grape

30 Ann __, Michigan

32 Arresting figure?

34 Couple’s indiscretion, for short

35 Female lobster

36 Rippled pattern

39 Judge on “America’s Got Talent”

40 Sci-fi aviators

41 Nautical “yes”

43 Mideast leader

44 “Lara Croft: __

Raider”

45 Animation

collectible

50 Aphrodite’s

love

51 Consisting of

two parts

52 Galway Bay

island group

54 Steakhouse

order

55 Pluckable

instruments

56 Computer

operators

57 Quaint

“performed”

59 State drawing

60 __ pointer

63 Letter-shaped

brace

67 Spanish “a”

68 Blasting

material

69 Aquaman’s

realm

70 Fútbol fan’s cry