crossword by Paul Nielsen

ACROSS

1. Faucets
5. Wall storage fixture
10. Early Tonight Show host
14. Alleged “Ark” landing
mtn. (alt. spell.)
15. Southeast Malay island
16. Opera diva Stevens
17. ____ majeste
18. Chocolate lady Secord
19. Ancient country
southeast of Palestine
20. Seat of King Arthur’s court
22. Put into bondage
24. Baseballer Gehrig
25. Greek letter

26. Patron saint of France
30. Nicest
34. Smell
35. Posture: _____e
37. Shallowest Great Lake
38. Verve: e___
39. Mine output
40. Footed vase
41. Gnat kin
43. Burn with hot liquid
45. German warship Graf ____
46. Aussie term for boonies
48. Smoker’s need
50. Knighthood title
51. Swiss river (alt. spell.)
52. Baby’s toys
56. Top navy rank
60. Width x length
61. Humble
63. Single (comb. form)
64. Brightest star: ____us
65. Statement of general truth
66. Goes with pans
67. Ache
68. N.Y. stadium, and others
69. “Pronto” in emerg. ward

DOWN
1. Softest metal
2. Space
3. Involuntary convulsion: s____
4. Pittsburgh footballer
5. Port city in Missouri
6. An interruption in
continuity: ____us
7. Ostrich relative
8. Learning
9. Madly frenzied
10. An opening piece (music)
11. Opera set in Egypt
12. Sea attached to
Black Sea (alt. spell.)
13. Picture holder: f____
21. ___ Chaney
(old character actor)
23. Several cities lead-in name
26. Jesters (scrambled)
27. Full grown stage (scrambled)
28. Actor Robert ____
29. Investment choice
30. Tolling of a bell
31. What volcanoes do
32. Slangy yes or no ender

33. Two of them make a sawbuck
36. Southern constellation
42. Refrain from
43. Piercing prolonged cries
44. Crowns of royalty
45. Marine decapods
47. Feel poorly
49. Leg, slangily
52. Course file
53. Opera song
54. Actress Garr
55. Native quarter of Algiers:
Ca____
56. Large continent
57. Kind of beer
58. Pilaster
59. Misplaced
62. Hewing tool

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