Crossword

ACROSS

1 Big slice

5 Baton

9 Talon

13 Inventor

Elias — 14 Radiance

15 Put on the

payroll

16 “— Named Charlie Brown”

17 Hollywood VIP

18 Poker stake

19 Tunes

21 As one

23 Holiday song

24 Unmatched thing

25 Town in Utah

27 With hands on hips

30 AFL- —

31 Strikebreakers

34 Garment size

36 Astringent substance

38 Inbox contents

40 Brad

41 Get going

43 Fiery crime

45 Wall climber

46 Objects from antiquity

48 Crystal-filled stone

50 Troubles

51 Microscopic

52 Sofa

55 Set inside a wall

59 Diva’s song

60 Hippodrome

62 Vetch seed

63 Claim on property

64 “— Without a Cause”

65 Sponsorship (var.) 66 Try

67 “Right away!”

68 — and file

DOWN

1 Mere show 2 Ear part 3 Like a missing GI 4 — a reasonable

doubt

5 Steering

mechanism

6 Is sickly

7 Opp. of SSW

8 Show to be false

9 Meeting head

10 Yarn fuzz

11 Comic Johnson

12 Do a lawn chore

14 Middle school subject

20 Performs

22 Actor — Patrick Harris

24 Place of refuge

25 Cargo vessel

26 Overcharge

28 Plait

29 Pointed arch

30 Taxi

32 Collect

33 Block of

chocolate

35 Isle of —

37 Soldier

39 Showing good sense

42 World’s longest river 44 Hawaiian goose

47 Makes

after taxes

49 Edible bivalve

51 Principle

52 Sodium chloride

53 American Indian

54 Knots

55 Singer — McEntire

56 Long series of events

57 “The Office” receptionist

58 Cubicle fixture

61 Soak, as flax