Crossword

Across

1 ___ of Evil

5 Check

8 Ancient Greek sophist

12 Phoenix neighbor

13 Country estate

15 Dry riverbed

16 Qom home

17 Part of UHF

18 Old oath

19 Old World tropical bean

20 Dormant

21 Rice wine

22 Bullock wagon

24 English race place

26 Lifts the lid?

29 Last of a series

32 Prelude to a duel

35 Born

36 Witchy doings

37 Little shaver

38 Rabble-rouse

40 Authorize

41 Father of the Titans

43 Merino mother

44 Siberian river

45 Gritty one

46 Cantankerous

48 Stockpile

50 Smelled awful

54 Wind down

56 Transfer from a computer

59 Pilot’s problem

60 Graphic ___

61 Antler point

62 Spanish flower

63 Sandwich shop

64 Smooth transition

65 Route for Ben-Hur

66 Some beans and sauces

67 “You betcha!”

68 Kind of club

Down

1 Friend in a sombrero

2 Canon competitor

3 Newton or Stern

4 ___ Quentin

5 Type of order

6 Advance amount

7 North wind

8 “Totally cool!”

9 Bar billiards

10 One of the Aleutians

11 Pro or con

13 Broncs

14 Emulates Eminem

20 Hyperbola part

23 Venom carrier

25 Make do

27 Luau souvenir

28 Pan beginning

30 Hidden valley

31 Wirehair of film

32 Wallop

33 Pasternak heroine

34 Unshakably

36 Cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship

38 Ambience

39 Barley bristle

42 Unbeatable foe

44 Lixivium

46 Fish hawk

47 Lobsterlike

49 Dines

51 Former capital of Japan

52 Oil supporter

53 “The Lord of the Rings” figure

54 Bankrolls

55 Mars (Prefix)

57 Theater box

58 Weight

62 Semi

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