PRESERVATION

ACROSS

1 Grating to the ear

6 Abates, as a tide

10 Maryland’s ___ David 14 Napoleon’s fate 15 Taboo for Mrs. Sprat

16 Diva’s highlight 17 Instrument with sympathetic strings

18 Pacific root crop

19 Let off steam

20 “No use talking about it!”

23 Bill not depicting a president

24 Hunk’s physique

25 Snowman’s nose, perhaps

29 Break one’s back, so to speak

31 Woodward of Woodward and Bernstein

34 Dimwitted dog of comics

35 W.C. Fields persona

36 Beehive State native

37 “We’ll discuss it later”

41 “. . . but few ___ chosen”

42 Enveloping glows

43 Subject of a court bargain

44 Place for flowers

45 Early Oscar winner Jannings

46 Tough nuts to crack

48 Entrepreneuraiding org.

49 Plant in Mendel’s experiments

50 “Stay with it!”

58 Church center

59 Launderer’s appliance

60 Fabric with a repeated pattern

62 “Hansel and Gretel” prop

63 Patio furniture wood

64 Got in on a deal

65 Needing realignment

66 Strong desires

67 Butane and methane, for two

DOWN

1 First word of “Nowhere Man” 2 Any of three on a

3-D graph 3 Cosby of “Inside Edition”

4 Czech or Slovak

5 Contract adverb

6 John who will stop touring in 2021 7 Steady guy 8 Roseanne’s surname, again

9 Hoity-toity

10 Went spelunking

11 Field of study

12 Mojito flavoring

13 Bikeway or walkway

21 “But then again . . .”

22 Loggers’ contest

25 Live together, informally

26 Place on a pedestal

27 In a lather

28 Firethorn berry color

29 Wreck beyond repair

30 Baseball scoreboard figure

31 Valveless horn

32 Survey choice, sometimes

33 Often-buggy software releases

35 Mumbai attire

38 Billy Blanks fitness program

39 All the world’s people

40 Co. with brown trucks

46 Muscle near a lat

47 Poster material

48 Totally out of gas

49 Young hoodlums

50 Old radio or

TV part

51 Ice dam site 52 Headed for overtime

53 Family depiction

54 Parti-colored horse

55 Island near Mull

56 Things picked by picky people 57 Great delight 61 Wielders of blue pencils (Abbr.)