CLUES ACROSS

1. Amounts of time

5. A ship’s place at a wharf

10 Point a finger at

12 Large, burrowing rodent

14. Raises the stakes

16. Measure of illumination

18. Cast out

19. One who is staid

20. A word used for emphasis

22. Military missions

23. Wet with rain

25. Selling at specially reduced prices

26. Word element meaning ear

27. __ student,

28. Blood relation

30. Make into leather

31. One billionth of a second (abbr.)

33. Containing salt

35. A seat

37. A type of fine pottery

38. You’re caught red-__!

40. “Heat” director Michael

41. Expression of creative skill

42. Title of respect

44. Crony

45. Payroll experts

48. Actress Remini

50. Famed consumer advocate

52. Indigenous Thai person

53. Fitzgerald and Baker are two

55. Cooking tool

56. Decorate a cake with frosting

57. The seventh note of a major scale

58. Transfer from private to state ownership

63. A set of five

65. Removes

66. Foolish persons

67. Lower parts of a wall

CLUES DOWN

1. Old EU money

2. Some put it on steak

3. Sign language

4. Sowed on the ground

5. Tags

6. Everyone has one

7. Arguments

8. N. African capital

9. Midgame (abbr.)

10. Change as needed

11. Functioning as a consonant

13. An island in the north Atlantic

15. Carpenter’s tool

17. Small football player

18. Ghosts say it

21. Explain through logic

23. Having ten

24. Criticize

27. Arms of the sea

29. Belonging to a bottom layer

32. __ Caesar, comedian

34. Licensed health care pro (abbr.)

35. Swiss cottage

36. Cleft lip

39. Loud, unpleasant noise

40. Disfigure

43. Kayakers traverse them

44. Authored

46. Small freshwater fishes

47. Macabre poet

49. Carthaginian statesman

51. Principle underlying the universe

54. Common Japanese surname

59. The bill in a restaurant

60. Small constellation

61. Chap

62. Equal

64. One quintillion bytes (abbr.)