Crossword

Across

1 Butts into

5 Not up yet

9 Pamplona runners

14 Mystery writer Ambler

15 Exploding star

16 Curacao neighbor

17 Capitol feature

18 Hidden valley

19 Furnace button

20 Defraud

22 Make a scene?

24 Compass pt.

25 Levels

27 Lifted

29 Cup handle

32 Family members

34 Ground cover

36 Criticize

37 Shipwreck signal

40 Lady’s escort

41 Words of wisdom

43 Six-sided state

45 Commotion

46 Word of possibility

47 Neutral shade

48 ___ oblige

52 Farm mother

53 Eric Arthur Blair’s aka, George ___

56 College bigwigs

58 Standard

59 Morning moisture

61 Sister of

65 Sambuca flavoring

67 Suspend

69 Make over

70 Stringed instruments

71 Previously

72 Actor Lugosi

73 Exhausted

74 Roll call calls

75 Dance bit

Down

1 Cincinnati nine

2 Lined up

3 La Bohème heroine Before the Mast writer

9 Kind of sauce 10 Bonanza find

11 Tricks

12 More than plump

13 Filled to excess

21 Claim

23 Brunch serving

26 Digressed

28 Matter of debate

29 Grade A item

30 Environs

31 We the Living author

33 Beldam 3

5 Backgammon piece

38 Elevator man

39 Palm starch

41 Mosey

42 Indian dish

44 Chop down

47 Out of shape

49 Senior

50 Spiritual session?

51 Some N.C.O.’s

53 Milky gems

54 Incurred over time, as a bill

55 Correspond

57 Novi Sad residents

60 Horse halter

62 Rendezvous

63 Not in use

64 It’s sold in bars

66 Cambodian coin

68 “___ takers?”