PUZZLES
CROSSWORD HEAR HERE!
ACROSS
1 SAT section
5 Attempt at a
score
9 Miracle food in Exodus 14 “Hair” hairdo 15 Driftwood carrier 16 Burger topper 17 Equestrian’s handful 18 Blood-related 19 Combo three times the size of a 3-Down
20 Flat, in a way
23 Nile Valley
slitherer
24 Direct deposit,
briefly
25 RPM part
28 Turn to slush
31 Midsize Hyundai
36 Angst-ridden
genre
37 Like sugar-free
soda
39 Like JFK’s military
service
40 Annoyingly
overconfident
44 On the briny
45 Mideast bigwig
46 “Cheap Thrills”
singer
47 Loosen, as
trousers
49 Didn’t dawdle
51 Many univ. lab
instructors
52 Gloomy guy?
54 Assent on deck
56 As much as
possible
64 Morocco’s capital
65 Starbuck’s
captain
66 Not for the
squeamish
67 The in crowd
68 Pull up stakes,
informally
69 Literally, “high
wood” 70 “Show Me the Way” singer Frampton
71 James ___ Polk
72 Storied Highlands
loch
DOWN
1 Gas station
adjunct, often
2 Not many
3 Smallish combo
4 Bike in a Beach Boys song 5 Rancher’s nightmare
6 Enjoy a trail
7 Father of Thor
8 Needing a chill
pill
9 Same old same old 10 Bartlett’s abbr. 11 Pinta partner 12 December air 13 Six-legged soldier 21 Suffix with Marx or Lenin
22 Unsettled issues 25 “She loves me . . .”
unit
26 Overplay the
part
27 Place to perch
29 As it’s happening
30 Comes down in
buckets
32 “Ain’t happenin’!”
33 Salt’s “Halt!”
34 Shire of “Rocky”
movies
35 Sporty Italian
cars, briefly
38 It may result
in a fall
41 Corp. top dog
42 Sitcom track
sound
43 Place for a
loaf
48 Election Day
day (Abbr.)
50 It hides the
gray
53 Bit of sarcasm
55 Provoke with
a dare
56 Raconteur’s
delivery 57 Black-bordered
article, perhaps
58 ___ Liverpool
(English gallery)
59 “After that . . .”
60 Eclipse effect
61 Lounger’s attire
62 Son of Aphrodite
63 You may keep
them peeled
64 Street cred