Crossword

ACROSS

1 Sell hot tickets 6 Fabric meas. 9 Polite address 14 Pond scum 15 Winery feature 16 Mall for Plato 17 Play one’s —

right

18 Crisis

20 Used a prayer

rug

21 Parched 22 Gleeful shout 23 Tips over 25 Snatches 28 Wyatt the

lawman 31 Forceful

person 35 Green garnish 38 More unctuous 39 Durham

university 40 Game or

season opener 42 Big party 43 Get one’s

bearings 46 Psych up 49 Make an offer 50 Lucy Lawless

role

51 Enjoy a hot tub 53 Race car

engine 57 Chicago Loop

trains

60 Zoo barker 63 Cone-bearer 65 Signaling

device

68 Up in arms 69 Hosiery

shade

70 Quip

71 — a dull

moment 72 Subsequently 73 Cable

network 74 “Ninotchka”

name

DOWN

1 Plunder 2 Clatter

3 Come to terms 4 Soup

server

5 Mortar

go-withs

6 — St. Laurent 7 Noblewoman 8 Not gentle 9 Kiosk buy,

slangily 10 Mellow 11 Portuguese

title

12 Principal 13 Poet —

Angelou 19 Skims through 24 “Gal” of song 26 Provo inst. 27 Muddle

29 Agt. 30 Glassware

brand

32 Broad sts. 33 Ration out 34 Sourdough’s

find

35 Virtuous 36 Like

37 Cattails 39 Decimal point 41 Hydrocarbon

suffix

44 Prefix meaning

“recent” 45 Foolish talk 47 Amatol

ingredient 48 Trucking 52 Retirement

plan

54 More

uncommon 55 Cochise’s

warrior 56 Sonnet stanza 57 “Como —

usted?” 58 Page of a book 59 Grime 61 Bedouin 62 Engineering

toy 64 Vindictive

goddess 66 Gorilla

67 Part of “mpg”