Crossword
NOT SO PERFECT
ACROSS 1 Thick with vegetation 5 Pacific, for one 10 Place to shop 14 Butter substitute 15 Rear end 16 Cream-filled cookie 17 Regretful looks, maybe 20 Occur as a result 21 Stagnant swamps 22 Distillery supply 25 Word after “catch” or “hang” 26 Took a nibble 29 Hearts, for one 31 Electrician’s alloy 35 Benz trailer? 36 Sheer brilliance 38 “Able was __ . . .” (palindrome start) 39 They may be indecipherable 43 Green Gables girl 44 Creepy 45 The whole song and dance? 46 Razz 49 Heroin, on the street 50 D and C in D.C. 51 Volcano substance 53 Big birds that cannot fly 55 Alligator’s South American relatives 58 Type size 62 Like empty pockets on display 65 Hankering 66 It may have an attachment 67 Italian producer of 51-Across 68 Vegas gas 69 It’s not an orig. 70 Far East weight DOWN 1 Part of an ear 2 ___ Bator 3 Fractions of hrs. 4 Baloney 5 One-kind link 6 Jam ingredient? 7 Concludes 8 ___-Saxon 9 Sheer stockings 10 Landlocked nation of Asia 11 Part of a foot 12 Wrangler alternatives 13 ____ Alamos, N.M. 18 Otter’s kin 19 Synonym for 6-Down 23 Henry who created Life 24 A proper senor has one 26 Started 27 Preposterous 28 Lead/tin alloy 30 Domesticates 32 Ballerina painter Edgar 33 Put up, as a building 34 Notes aren’t written during these 37 Hour of prayer 40 Sheet, e.g. 41 “Anna and the King of ___” 42 Followed smoothly 47 Unable to walk 48 Tax ___ (IRS quarry) 52 Japanese cartoon style 54 Winter weather 55 Successful treatment 56 Bearer of the Golden Fleece 57 Get the picture? 59 Smidgen 60 Adjust a piano 61 Abbr. after a list of names 62 252-gallon barrel 63 Ben Kingsley’s title 64 1969 Peace Prize grp.