TAKE THE HIGH WAY
ACROSS
1 Interjection from
Scrooge
4 Talk smack about
9 Place to dream
12 Diva’s delivery
14 “Citizen Kane”
director Orson
16 Tavern offering
17 Beach cart roller
19 No-win situation? 20 Virus named for an African river 21 Graffiti artist’s signature
22 Galahad’s garb
24 Abrasive stuff
26 “Wait a minute!”
28 Regarding, on a
memo
31 Barber chair part 33 Duck hunters’ hideouts 35 Game show creator Griffin
36 Kravitz of
“Big Little Lies”
39 Big star’s small part 40 Disreputable sort
41 Diplomatic
go-between
43 Stockholm’s land
(Abbr.)
44 George Orwell’s
alma mater
46 Scum of the earth 47 All the things you
want
50 Place for tools
51 Gave a buzz to
52 Rudely short-spoken 54 Feisty “Cheers” waitress 55 Lincoln or Ford 57 With 15-Down, like Death Valley
61 ___ Arbor, Mich. 62 Triangle or square, e.g.
65 “The Simpsons” barkeep
66 Longtime Ebert partner 67 Tickled-pink feeling 68 Pricing word
69 Like drops of
perspiration
70 Sever from a tree,
with “off”
DOWN
1 Sweetie pie
2 Many a 32-Down
3 Largest city on
Hawaii
4 Lowest prime
number
5 Accept as a tenant
6 Utah ski resort
7 Gave the brush-off to 8 HRH part,
sometimes
9 Jewish girl’s rite of passage
10 “The Waste Land” poet 11 Leaping critter on road signs 13 “Nothing left!” 15 See 57-Across 18 Sculler’s tool 23 Google Maps lines (Abbr.) 25 Hypothetical cases 27 Bruins Hall of Famer Bobby
28 Pre-K basics 29 Side with fish and chips
30 Big name in cable
service
32 Muscat resident
34 Works out in a pool 37 Move like slime
38 Gave the once
over to
40 New evidence might reopen one
42 Roth IRA, e.g.
45 Most common
English word
46 “Rugrats” dad
48 Under the
weather
49 Windbag’s delivery
51 Lake resort rental
53 Sac fly stat
54 Sleep under the stars
56 Paul who wrote “She’s a Lady” 58 Quiet period on the job
59 Cookie crumbled on sundaes
60 Burst into tears
63 Left-winger, for short 64 Spider’s prey, or what the first parts of 17- and 62-Across and 9- and 30-Down can do