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 … A matter worth considering 22 Mythical meanie 23 “What ___?”
24 … Plaint upon going through one’s closet
26 Suggest gently 29 Whale’s closest living land relative
31 Words repeated in “___ right, or ___ right?”
32 Delights in 34 They’re taken in chess 38 … A small amount 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 Difficult situation
2 “Little ___ in Slumberland” (early comic)
3 “QB VII” author,
1970
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