Crossword
ACROSS
1 Fail to invite, maybe
5 The Taj City
9 ___ toast
14 Home to a majority of the world’s alpacas
15 Spinnaker or spanker
16 Smith, sometimes
17 Drop
18 When prefixed with 72-Across, what a friend wishes for you
20
22 Mythical meanie
23 “What ___?”
24 … Plaint upon going through one’s closet
26 Suggest gently
29 Whale’s closest living land relative
… A matter worth considering
31 Words repeated in “___ right, or ___ right?”
Delights in
32 34
They’re taken in chess
38 … amount A small
40 Introductory course?
42 … “Piece of cake!”
43 Gladiatorial accessory
45 Watch surreptitiously
47 ___ shot
48 A, B and C, but not X, Y and Z
50 Bubbled, as a cauldron
52 … Dud
55 Calumnies
56 Unaltered
57 … Magician’s
claim
63 … Surgeon’s goal
65 In the thick of
66 One in it for the long run?
67 Palindromic
woman
68 Result of atmospheric inversion
69 Old kind of pool
70 Bridge scorecard heading
71 Where Bill and Hillary Clinton met
DOWN
1 2 Difficult “Little ___ situation in Slumberland” (early comic)
3 “QB 1970 VII” author,
4 …“Swish”
5 Widely banned
building material
6 Part of a medical
kit
7 It’s a tradition
8 Ski area in the Wasatch Mountains
9 Wild West?
10 Displace by force
11 Feudal superior
12 City whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS
13 Purple perennial
19 Address starter
21 Carrier that operates only six days a week
25 Go (for)
26 Overly theatrical sorts
27 Repeated cry after “Stop shaking me!”
28 Deserving, to Santa
29 Chips in
30 Opiner’s opener
33 Waterford offering
35
36 Shade of green
37 Drywall support
39 Does a surfing trick
41 Singer who played the title role in “Calamity Jane”
44 ___ deer
46 Holiday song
49 Level
51 … “Keep at it!”
52 Comforts
53 Opening of a fitness motto 54 M-1, for one
55 Jeff of the Electric Light Orchestra
58 Totally dope, in dated slang
59 Ho Chi ___ City
60 Heiress of Hartfield, in an 1816 novel
61 Popular Renaissance instrument
62 Sharp part
64 Stereotypical frat
member
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