Crossword Puzzle 1
ACROSS
1 Rural assent 5 Michelle who
wrote “Becoming” 10 Rikishi’s sport 14 Beat fast, as a
heart
15 __ Wiggum,
Lisa Simpson classmate 16 Bracketology org. 17 Expand regs to
one’s advantage 20 SEA postings 21 Very large 22 Emerald City
creator
23 NBC’s “Weekend
Update” show 26 Exile isle 28 Impulsively get
involved 32 Nanny, mostly? 33 “... a farm, __” 34 AP rival
35 With 38-Across, take a dangerous risk
38 See 35-Across 41 Carried
42 Sub detector 43 Mystical old letter 46 Salty margarita
glass spots 48 Fishy email asking for personal info, perhaps
51 Many an April
birth
53 Lessen in intensity 57 Actress Ullmann 58 Rights activist
Carmichael 60 “Planet Money”
network
61 Do the opposite of what those who 17-, 28- or 35-/38-Across do 64 Ritzy NYC
thoroughfare 65 Joins the service 66 Taste test request 67 Can’t bear
DOWN
1 Jr. and sr.
2 Chow down 3 Lets have it 4 Connect (with) 5 Hobbit enemies 6 Exclamation from
Scrooge 7 Key to some
shortcuts? 8 Meas. with city and highway calculations
9 “If I might
interrupt ... ” 10 Aptly named baby carrier brand
11 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in coll.
12 Sallie __ 13 Western treaty
gp.
18 Suspense
novelist Hoag 19 Great Barrier __ 22 Swindling
scheme
23 Place for a
soccer guard 24 Once known as 25 Pain au __:
French dessert 27 Org. concerned
with boxers
28 Kid
29 Classical prefix 30 Exclamation from
Homer
31 Level
36 One of two for
52-Down
37 Dot follower, on
campuses 39 Doctrine suffix 40 Win by a __ 44 Locally grown 45 Like jagged
edges 46 Volleyball star
Gabrielle 47 Madagascar, e.g. 48 Snoozed 49 “Inside Out”
studio
50 Looney Tunes
animator Tex 52 Prez before Jack 54 Licorice-like
flavoring 55 Parking places 56 Physicist Mach 58 Read, as a bar
code
59 ’Tis the season 62 “Citizen Kane”
distributor 63 Chickadee kin