crossword

THEME: EARTH DAY ACROSS

1. Caprese birthplace

6. Vigor

9. Opera house box

13. Completely dedicated

14. *Earth Day month, acronym

15. Boiling kettle emission

16. Dog collar attachment

17. Lao-tzu follower

18. Think tank output

19. *Greenhouse gas

21. *Green transportation

23. U.N. labor issues org.

24. Copper coin

25. Unit of electrical resistance

28. Short for “and elsewhere”

30. Take for ransom

35. Blow up

37. *What exhaust pipes do

39. Cabbage

40. “I’m ____ you!”

41. Alternative to talkers

43. Russian autocrat

44. Must-haves

46. Was aware of

47. Giant Himalayan

48. Put on a pedestal

50. “Team” homophone

52. Say it to agree

53. Hallway permission

55. Mouth piece

57. *Homemade fertilizer

61. *Marked with different recycling codes

65. Shylock’s practice

66. O in OPEC

68. OEle de la CitÈ river

69. Blackthorn fruit, pl.

70. Future fish

71. Mixed breed dogs

72. One trick animal?

73. Rain byproduct

74. “Bye” to Banderas

DOWN

1. “____ down!”

2. Sheltered, nautically

3. ____ du jour

4. Hindu sage

5. Get a lungful

6. Toupee spot

7. *Federal org.

8. Exploratory spacecraft

9. “____ and the Tramp”

10. Crude group

11. Hockey score

12. Highland tongue

15. Target of crime

20. Prominent

22. Desk well content

24. Grisham novel “The ____”

25. *Diminishing layer

26. Sharpens

27. Sacred song

29. In a frenzy

31. Half-rotten

32. Offensively curious

33. Winged

34. *The ____ Agreement

36. Pie a la ____

38. *Oxygen generator

42. Excellent, old fashioned

45. Indian soldiers in Great Britain’s army, e.g.

49. More, in Madrid

51. Unwholesome atmosphere

54. *Nature’s rage

56. Impostor

57. Intersection of two arcs

58. Capital of Norway

59. Negatively charged particle

60. The hunted

61. Same as pleaded

62. South American monkey

63. Sean Penn’s movie “____ the Wild”

64. ____pool or ____pit

67. Debtor’s letters