CROSSWORD NO. 2
ACROSS
1 Put up with
5 Helps badly?
10 Leave speechless
13 Roughly
14 Loosen, in tailoring
16 Penguins’ and
Sharks’ org.
17 Missouri structure
that is 630 feet tall
19 Actor Robbins
20 Light-colored
wood
21 Expressive music
genre
22 Queens team
24 Rock band or sleep
stage
25 “___ story short ...”
27 Inactive
28 Follow behind
30 Fish commonly served a la Meuniere
34 Oslo’s country:
Abbr.
36 Paycheck deduction
37 Defeat in wrestling
38 React under pressure, or a hint to the ends of 17-, 30-, 47- and 65-Across
44 Cheerios grain
45 Bit of advice
46 ___ eye to eye
47 Game called “noughts and crosses” in Britain
51 Some essays or
assays
55 Glorify
56 Dessert made by changing 8-Down’s vowel © 2021 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION.
12 Trees lining the
National Mall
15 Gender-neutral
possessive
18 “Hmm ... I guess”
23 OB-GYNS, e.g.
26 Deteriorate
29 Tired traveler’s
respite
31 UPS vehicle
32 Past partners
33 Tolkien tree
creature
35 Campus
recruitment grp.
38 One may be
potty-trained
39 Shout “Taxi!”
40 Incredulous
expression
41 Small complaint
42 Agree out
of court
43 Tuition, for one
48 Hard jerk
49 “30” singer
50 Baby bird in
an aerie
52 Sticky situation
53 “Throne”
54 Expensive wraps
57 Come back from
behind
59 Cellphone plan
component
60 Mysterious
marking
61 Too-good-to-betrue offer
66 Little terror
67 Say “Ple-e-ease,”
say 58 Spare bed, perhaps
59 Pitfalls
62 Square dance
partner
63 Christ the Redeemer’s Brazilian city, familiarly
64 End up in a cast?
65 ‘50s sitcom icon with two Hollywood stars
68 Caps Lock
neighbor
69 Canine protector?
70 Alternative to a foil
or saber
71 Prez on Mount
Rushmore
72 Vacant
73 Attains
DOWN 1 Humphrey of “The
Big Sleep”
2 Pencil part that may
be chewed
3 Reason for wheezing, perhaps
4 Tobiko, for
example
5 San Antonio tourist
destination
6 Farther than
7 Waze calculation,
briefly
8 Civil wrong
9 “Parting is ___ sweet sorrow” (Juliet)
10 “Home on the
Range” animal
11 Delicate
deception