Acr oss
1 Clothes
6 It may get into
a jamb
10 Doesn’t guzzle
14 Asian capital
15 A Woman ---
Importance
(Oscar Wilde)
16 Cashmere, e.g.
17 A year in Rome
18 Small amphibians
19 “Wishing won’t
make ---”
20 Take in again
22 Con
24 Poetess --- Hejinian
25 First-stringers
27 Give up
30 Uncle Napoleon?
32 Interior
36 Jedi Starstone
37 WW2 Greek
Resistance org.
38 Purgative
39 Opposed, in Dogpatch
40 Perfect, e.g.
42 Light source
43 Desert bloomers
45 They’re not returned
46 Red pigment
47 In a corner
48 Try out
49 Baby blues
50 Bumps
52 1997 U.S. Open champ
54 Encumber
57 Dogged
62 Fruit can be prickly
63 Toot
65 Wordsworth works
66 Sea eagle
67 Reverential salutations
68 Sammy Kaye’s “---
Tomorrow”
69 Buck passers?
70 Miles per hour, e.g.
71 Scholarship
qualifi ers
Dow n
1 Blacken
2 Rural route
3 “The King and I”
role
4 Indelicate
ambiguities
5 Cream puff
6 Mover and shaker
7 Not shown in
the books
8 Can. province
9 Diamond crackler
10 Stroking sessions?
11 Bit
12 Announce
13 --- gin fi zz
21 Dawn
23 Identify
26 Chucks
27 Do together
28 “Enigma
Variations”
composer
29 Prepare for
winter takeoff
31 Chemical salt
33 Filibuster
34 “Nicholas
Nickleby” victim
35 Breaks
41 Formed by acid
and alcohol
44 “American ---”
51 Except
53 Drink
54 Hightailed it
55 Prefi x: of higher
things?
56 Rosencrantz or
Guildenstern
58 Church alcove
59 “La Scala di ---”
(Rossini opera)
60 Radiate
61 Fast PC
connections
64 Actress ---
Marie Saint
Christmas Foo d
HAM
EGGNOG
MINCE PIES
GOOSE
MULLED WINE
GINGERBREAD
DUCK
STUFFING
CANDY CANE
FRUITCAKE
PUDDING
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