crosswords

of
wisdom
volume 1

MIKE SELINKER
with Mark L. Gottlieb and Gaby Weidling
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 Crosswords of Wisdom

by Mike Selinker
with Mark L. Gottlieb and Gaby Weidling

Collection © 2019 Lone Shark Games, Inc. Puzzles © 2019 Eltana. All rights reserved.
 Introduction
Hey, let me tell you about my favorite restaurant in Seattle. It’s a bagel joint called Eltana,
up on Capitol Hill. They serve Montreal-style bagels there. Instead of puffing them up to
bloated sizes, Eltana rams its bagels through with a sword and then flame-roasts them.
This unique method allows Eltana to place toppings on both halves of the bagel, a vast
improvement for anyone who’s ever asked, “Do you want the top or the bottom?”

Eltana also has the best wall in Seattle. Right as you come in the front door, you are
greeted by a ten-foot high multi-colored crossword mural. It’s a very welcoming sight.
Every day hundreds of locals come in to get their bagel fix and solve the latest puzzle.
Every few weeks, the puzzle changes, with the white squares moving about and leaving
a crazy quilt of colors where the black squares would be.

This was the brainchild of Eltana owner Stephen Brown, who’s no ordinary restaurateur.
He was one of the founders of Seattle’s legendary Entros restaurant, where VR stations
and physical puzzle challenges were built into the walls. Oh, and it had a great wine list.
Pretty much aimed directly at me, Entros was.

When Stephen was starting his new venture, he met me in a cupcake shop and pitched
me on creating content for a crossword wall at Eltana. We wouldn’t just put any old
puzzle up there. Eltana’s philosophy was built around wisdom of the Jewish persuasion.
This was practical stuff, prompting you to live your life in the most fruitful way possible.
So, every few weeks, we would create a wisdom-based crossword, something entirely
non-frivolous. Any subject was fair game: politics, death, love, tolerance, anything at all.
If we could find a philosophical statement to build a puzzle around, we’d make it.

For the first time, we were making a crossword about something important.

I enlisted my colleagues Mark L. Gottlieb and Gaby Weidling and we made this cool thing.
Fifty of our favorite crosswords from the Eltana wall are in this book. How do we know
you’ll like them? We’ve seen the patrons of Eltana solving them. Every so often, we drop
in ostensibly to get a bagel, but maybe just a little to watch people enjoy what we do.
The fact that it’s under a ten-foot crossword we helped create makes it even sweeter.

Settle in, because we’re gonna drop some knowledge on you. We recommend solving
while eating a bagel. Preferably one from our favorite bagel shop.

Mike Selinker
OPEN YOUR DOORS
The Crosswords of Wisdom crew derives
joy from giving hospitality. Starting with
this puzzle, we throw our tent doors
open and receive all who wish to join us.
Here, you will find our words of
welcome, which we hope will inspire
you to venture further inside.

ACROSS
1 Simple garment
6 Alligator shirt brand
10 iPhone purchases
14 Continued for lines and lines
and lines...
15 “Veni, ___, vici”
16 Root used in Chinese cooking
17 “Welcome!”
20 Halt the flow of, as tears or
blood
21 Killer whale
22 Macroeconomic stat
23 Stanford’s main rival
24 Some W.B.A. wins
26 Saturday Night Live’s Cheri
28 Wallet contents
30 Phonies
33 Fails to keep pace with
35 Louisianan style of cuisine DOWN 34 Where the Blues play, in box
37 Begin’s diplomatic partner 1 City that’s across the bay from scores
38 “Welcome!” Oak-Town 36 Oil platform
42 Fetch 2 Palm used for making chairs 37 Opposite of NNW
43 A square has four 3 Cheaper than normal 38 How I Met Your Mother
44 Bagel topping 4 Mass. neighbor network
45 Song by Stone Temple Pilots, 5 New York baller 39 Prophetic
TLC, or Radiohead 6 ___ Got a Secret 40 From the fashion capital of
46 Engrave with acid 7 Giants pitcher Barry Italy
50 Social stratum 8 Aroma 41 Type of skiing
52 “___ vous plaît” 9 Dance clubs 45 Breakfast alternative to a bagel
54 Vince’s agent on Entourage 10 Past tense of 19-Down 47 Spuds
55 Weather map icon 11 “Sorry, that’s above your ___” 48 Fold
56 Withdraw from, as a class 12 Like a certain Biblical son 49 Insinuated
59 Spruce up 13 Dinner alternative to salad 51 Seahawks scores, for short
61 “Welcome!” 18 Like the Israelites, per Exodus 53 Sprang
64 No sweat 19 Have a nosh 55 Send out, like molten lava
65 “___ boy!” 25 Synagogue horn 57 Bart Simpson’s bus driver
66 Intrinsically 27 Pass, as time 58 Butter servings
67 Small songbird 29 What dogs track 60 On the ocean
68 Series whose villain was a 31 In solitary 62 The Fountainhead novelist
smoke monster 32 Gets onto the highway, Rand
69 Used an electroshock on perhaps 63 Kit-___
AVOID GOSSIP
Sages caution against the spread of
“Lashon Hara,” meaning “evil speech.”
More harm can be done with a softly
spoken word than with a hundred
swords. According to commentary on
the Book of Numbers, three people are
hurt by every word of malicious gossip,
as this puzzle shows.

ACROSS
1 Sound of shock
5 Like road games
9 Stockpile
14 Site of the Kon-Tiki Museum
15 Nutty as a fruitcake
16 National Poetry Month
17 With 27-, 39-, 47-, and 60-Across,
all three people hurt by a piece
of gossip
20 Electric start?
21 Mariner’s goal at the plate
22 Honeycomb manufacturer?
23 Pester
25 Failed 21-Across attempt
27 See 17-Across
31 “When it ___, it pours”
35 Consecrated
36 Eastern “way” DOWN 32 Right Said Fred hit “___ Sexy”
37 Jim Henson’s frog 1 Fan of The Cure and Bauhaus, 33 Camera brand
38 Australian biped perhaps 34 Platoon director Oliver
39 See 17-Across 2 Like a recently used fireplace 37 They’re fit to be tied?
41 Ring result, briefly 3 Go tobogganing 39 Many Bernie Sanders devotees
42 Blush 4 Louisiana sandwich 40 Conclusion
44 See 69-Across 5 Ginger ___ 43 Beehive and pixie cut
45 Celestial body 6 That’s amazing! 45 Where to go for Help
46 ___ the storm 7 German exclamation 47 Weapons depot
47 See 17-Across 8 Chocolaty beverage 48 Hawaiian dance
49 Celestial bodies 9 Snags 50 Poisonous serpent
51 Celestial body 10 Zoo attraction 52 Offenses written up at traffic
52 Bashful housemate? 11 Grouch stops
55 Suffix with sex or multicultural 12 Walk in the woods 53 Seattle skater Apolo
56 Breathtaking organs? 13 Otherwise 54 Like Harvard, after its 1977
60 See 17-Across 18 Person, place, or thing merger with Radcliffe
65 Bumbling 19 Drink daintily 57 Impermissible act
66 Part in a play 24 Climb aboard 58 Second Amendment subject
67 Paquin of True Blood 25 Particles of light 59 Don’t go anywhere
68 Vending machine 26 What a golfer tries to break 61 Facial location?
offerings 27 Over yonder 62 Rick Derringer hit “Rock and
69 With 44-Across, Sean 28 Comfortably cheery Roll, Hoochie ___”
Lennon’s mom 29 Escape the grasp of 63 Big deer
70 Pleasant, as an outlook 30 Used to exist 64 The Matrix hero
BE NATURE’S CUSTODIAN
In the Jewish Declaration on Nature,
man is dubbed the “custodian of the
natural world.” We have not always
held this responsibility in great regard.
For each of the six theme entries, its
clue is the date of its final recorded
encounter with us—a stark reminder of
the power we wield, and the need to
wield it with better judgment.

ACROSS
1 Coffee, slangily
5 It may welcome you
8 Breaks a Commandment
12 Mary Kay competitor
13 September 7, 1936
16 August 14, 1875
19 Drivers’ licenses, e.g.
20 Alec’s successor (or perhaps
predecessor) as Obi-Wan
21 Pitcher’s stat
22 Isn’t rad
25 Sesame Street network
26 N. Mex. neighbor
27 A clairvoyant might read yours
28 “Solved it!”
29 Siddhartha author Hermann
31 December 12, 1878 DOWN 30 Major for a future MBA
34 Greek M’s 1 Middle Brady sister candidate
35 Griffey, Jr., to Griffey, Sr. 2 “___ Maria” 32 “___ sow, so shall...”
36 Card game with Skip and 3 Promise 33 Scheduled to arrive
Reverse cards 4 Like many a protest 37 Somewhat
37 Hustle and bustle 5 Wash.’s Olympics, e.g. 38 Sandwich shop
40 January 6, 2000 6 Backrub reactions 39 The yoke’s on them
43 Dutch painter Jan 7 Strike its key and it will, in turn, 40 Pod occupant
45 German article strike the ribbon 41 Retirement fund
46 Cleopatra’s river 8 “Nobody doesn’t like ___ Lee” 42 Goal of self-reflection
47 Light blue 9 “___ see my house from here!” 43 Young 54-Across
48 Internet portal that debuted at 10 Suffix with peace or neat 44 Yanks, as heartstrings
the same time as Windows 95 11 Silently says “Told you so!” 47 iTunes Store purchase
49 Sean who played Samwise in 14 What bills become 48 Nativity scene trio
The Lord of the Rings 15 Spooky 49 Exodus protagonist ___ Ben
50 Wrinkly-faced dog 17 Takes too much LSD Canaan
51 Watery castle protection 18 Destructive Looney Tunes 51 Israeli Prime Minister Golda
53 ___ Lanka character, for short 52 Aware of
54 September 1, 1914 22 Soothing ointment 53 Still active, perhaps despite
60 September 27, 1937 23 Waikiki feast one’s age
61 Mata ___ 24 Eyes, poetically 55 Sneaky and clever
62 Rookie 25 Motorola product 56 “Ridin’ the Storm Out” band
63 Non-Jew, to a Jew 26 Inquire ___ Speedwagon
64 Animal that shares the theme 28 Decorate (with) 57 Drum site
entries’ common trait (though 29 Province south of the Yangtze 58 Raw metal
not because of us) River 59 Put the kibosh on
EXTEND THE TABLE
”Let all who are hungry, come and eat,”
the Haggadah says. The concept of
“extending the table” urges us not to
turn away those in need of a meal. Here,
we make sure that others feel
comfortable by being hospitable and
hope they find our food acceptable.

ACROSS
1 “___ to Be Square”
4 “Oh yeah? ___ who?”
7 Instant
10 British police officer
12 Comment from Hedwig?
14 Pequod captain
15 Greengrocer’s stock in trade
18 It’s north of Mich.
19 Down in the dumps
20 Type of game played in person,
not electronically
21 Ooze out
23 Like some Blu-ray players
26 Best Picture of 2005
29 Arduous journey
31 Use a blowtorch, perhaps
33 Kind of code or rug
34 Creme-filled cookie
36 Half a fortnight DOWN 35 Part of many an L. Frank Baum
38 Worthy of taking out 1 Backyard menace title
39 Duet between two Coles 2 Nirvana album featuring 37 Record company that issued
42 Close to the ground “Heart-Shaped Box” compilation albums in the ‘70s
45 Band that released “Africa” 3 Letter after chi and ‘80s
46 Wield a scythe 4 Follow closely 40 Soul singer Redding
48 ___ Tzu (dog breed) 5 One billion years 41 Graphical representations
50 Italian restaurant offering 6 Superman II general 42 Timothy Leary topic
52 Quite the humdinger 7 Actor/playwright Sam 43 Shout of discovery
54 Treat shaped like a bagel 8 Untainted, as food 44 British locale of the world’s
56 Mailed 9 The Amazing Race network largest occupied castle
58 Beachgoer’s shoe contents 10 Money-minded execs 47 Tenor Domingo
60 512, in Roman times 11 Ark of the Covenant contents 49 The Cosby Show family
62 Informative document, briefly 13 What a Toshiba might sit upon 51 Car dealership gorilla, e.g.
64 Franchise with shows set in Las 14 Greek marketplace 53 Not appropriate
Vegas, Miami, and New York 16 Sucker 55 0–0, for example
65 State exemplified by a pencil 17 List ender 57 Mai ___
balanced on its point 22 Lima’s land 59 You might stop on or drop one
70 Dairy sounds 24 Created a new draft of 61 Measurements of cleverness
71 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off star Mia 25 You might smack your knee 63 They throw to WRs
72 Beatles’ “Sexy” lady against this at dinner 65 Sounds of hesitation
73 Oakland Raiders Ken 27 Coral or Aral, e.g. 66 Famous
74 Allowing the selection of one 28 Loathsome 67 Alliance Syr. once belonged to
to four stars, for example 30 King Lear role 68 Broadway lyricist Gershwin
75 Untainted, as water 32 Bambi, for one 69 Sir Mix-a-Lot’s genre
SPEND YOUR MONEY ON GOOD BOOKS
In the 1300s the scholar Immanuel
wrote, “Spend your money on good
books, and you’ll find its equivalent
in gold of intelligence.” You can seek
out quite a few good books in the
modern era, as this puzzle shows.

ACROSS
1 Packers or Pacers, for example
5 Soma Intimates purchases
9 Skippy competitor
12 Quad bikes, e.g.
13 Oft-”rolled” musician Astley
14 Prefix with friendly
15 Kate Seredy children’s book set
in Hungary
18 Celebrity gossip rag
19 Femur-tibia meeting place
20 George Lucas’s LA alma mater
21 Saturn model replaced by
the Astra
22 Scarf down
23 Show off
26 Philip Roth story collection
about American Jews
30 Ugly epithet
31 “Well would you look at that!”
32 Houston Hobby info, for short DOWN 35 Martin, to Emilio and Charlie
33 End Times parody by Terry 1 Ink 36 Valley that’s home to the
Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 2 Component of beer, wine, and Robert Mondavi Winery
38 Mt. St. Helens output some gasoline 37 UW or MIT
41 Knee High Stocking Co., for 3 Swear 38 Bread box?
one 4 Lo mein additive 39 Introverted
42 Farm fraction 5 Charlotte, Emily, or Anne 40 Lend a hand
45 Nautical WWII novel by 6 Park and ___ 43 Any tree of the subfamily
C.S. Forester 7 Maker of giant rubber bands Sequoioideae
51 Song by Wings, Lionel Richie, and explosive tennis balls 44 You may need to run them
or Justin Timberlake 8 Jamaican musical genre 46 “Skedaddle!”
52 Actress Lupino 9 It’s chucked overboard 47 Metamorphoses poet
53 Slam-dunking 76ers legend 10 Friday headliner 48 ___ Learning (film featuring 10-
54 Letter that represents the 11 In support of Down)
Golden Ratio 16 “Sure thing!” 49 Massage text
55 The Gift of the ___ 17 Kirk’s helmsman 50 Rave VIP’s
57 Word that precedes “brillig” 18 ___ file (email ender) 55 Like some hot sauces,
58 Children’s book by 22 Longest river contained oxymoronically
Margaret Wise Brown entirely within Spain 56 Dos átomos de hidrógeno y uno
about a bunny’s bedtime 23 Chunk of frozen seawater de oxígeno
61 Piratical provisions 24 Loon 57 Screwdriver, for one
62 Clue-hunting pooch 25 Agcy. that X-rays shoes 58 Steve Carell’s supervillain in
63 Mount near Portland 27 Used a spade Despicable Me
64 Beehive State tribesman 28 Operator of the world’s largest 59 Mavs’ and Cavs’ org.
65 Purim’s month brewing facility 60 Unit of conductance that is,
66 Day-___ (yesterday’s baked 29 Unit of resistance quite literally, the inverse of 29-
goods) 34 The duck in Peter and the Wolf Down
PROTEST INJUSTICE
”There may be times when we are
powerless to prevent injustice,” the late
Elie Wiesel said, “but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.” Here
are some places where people didn’t fail
to protest, often with serious
consequences for themselves.

ACROSS
1 Country where election protestor
Neda Agha-Soltan was killed on
June 20, 2009
5 Very dry, as Champagne
9 Works on a Project Runway project
13 “My bad!”
14 Mozart’s ___ kleine Nachtmusik
15 Country where Gandhi led a 23-day
march to protest the British salt
tax starting on March 12, 1930
16 State where protests began on
February 14, 2011, leading to an
occupation of the capital building
18 Posts
19 Scotch ___
20 Bases-loaded walk result, for short
21 City where protests delayed the
World Trade Organization
meetings on November 30, 1999 62 School where Vietnam protesters 22 Heath’s Brokeback Mountain role
23 Motown singer ___ Marie were shot by Ohio National 23 Not now?
25 Brief name for where gay Guardsmen on May 4, 1970 24 Essentially
protesters rioted at the Stonewall 65 City where protestors gathered on 26 Cleverness
Inn on June 28, 1969 January 25, 2011, ultimately 27 Anyone born on April Fool’s Day
26 City where the Rabbis’ March on toppling the Mubarak government 28 Emulate the Rat City Rollergirls
October 6, 1943, protested 66 Abbr. in many school names 29 Suffix with ball or bass
inaction against the Holocaust 67 Second word of many fairy tales 31 Poet Sylvia
30 Some PCs 68 Laudatory poems 32 Country where protests against
33 Ticked off 69 Helper Bashar al-Assad’s regime began on
34 ___ polloi 70 Region where Rachel Corrie was January 26, 2011
35 Fleur-de-___ killed by an Israel Defense Forces 36 Appear
37 Site where one man stood against bulldozer on March 16, 2003 38 Dynamite inventor
a column of tanks on June 5, 1989 39 X-ray alternative
42 Actor’s workplace DOWN 40 Airline with a kangaroo logo
43 “...boy ___ girl?” 1 Early caucus state 41 Craving
44 Glee character for Kevin McHale 2 Stir up 46 Diamond heists, perhaps
45 Not quite as dry as 5-Across 3 Church recess 48 Like certain space probes
47 City where the Children’s Crusade 4 Obama’s foreign policy grp. 49 Dumpee’s query
began on May 2, 1963, to protest 5 Actor Brian of Private Practice 51 Benicio del ___ (9-Down star)
Jim Crow laws 6 On the ascent 53 Food in a shell
50 Partook 7 Seahawk’s garb, informally 54 Wall Street, for example
52 Sample 8 Change for a fifty 55 “Would ___ to you?”
53 City where a bloody crackdown on 9 Film directed by Guy Ritchie 56 Where to buy an Ektorp sofa
anti-Gaddafi protestors took place 10 Make text better 58 Dad
on February 25, 2011 11 Shortz of crosswords 59 Including everything
57 Vardalos or Long 12 Wedding invitation encl. 60 Gabrielle’s fighting partner
58 Popular game/culture convention 15 “Wherever ___ Roam” (Metallica) 63 Priest who taught Samuel
61 Instant Messenger user 17 Tater Tots brand 64 Yank
DO EVERYTHING IN MODERATION
The Babylonian Talmud recommends a
life of moderation, the midpoint
between denial and excess. It
specifically lists eight things that are
good in manageable amounts and
terrible in unmanageable amounts.
Some things on the list make sense
today, and others… well, you’ll see.

ACROSS
1 Hypotheticals
4 Eagle’s claw
9 Northeast neighbor of Israel
14 Little kid
15 Me, Myself & ___ (Farrelly
Brothers comedy)
16 Lowest rung on the corporate
ladder
17 With 24-, 36-, 52-, and 60-Across,
“eight things that taken in large
quantities are bad but in small
quantities are helpful”
20 Corn chip brand whose ads
once featured a “Bandito”
21 Sea-___ Airport
22 Him, to an homme
23 Insurance firm founded by
Eliphalet A. Bulkeley 66 The Matrix hero 24 Boys who have advanced past
24 See 17-Across 67 First heavyweight boxer to Bear Cub
26 Address for an officer, perhaps simultaneously hold the WBA, 25 Blows away
27 Address for an officer, perhaps WBC, and IBF belts 28 Fishnets, for example
30 Soloist? 68 Succumb to hysteria 29 Sick
31 Suffix with Vancouver or meteor 69 Sphere 33 Places to get facials
32 Former Eagles quarterback 35 Use a dagger
Kevin DOWN 37 Suffix with musket or rocket
33 Darn 1 Gomez Addams’s cousin 39 This font named after a 16th
34 Inquires 2 Major League Baseball scores century Italian calligrapher
36 See 17-Across them 9-0 40 Chronicle alternative, in Frisco
38 Gush 3 Franchise rebooted by J.J. 41 What Peter Parker’s shooters
42 Mao ___-tung Abrams in 2009 shoot
44 Jacob’s first wife 4 Accessory designed to help 43 Cease making forward progress
46 Body spray named after a weapon avoid soup-related with
47 Spring for the check catastrophes 45 Candidate for
50 Sicker than before 5 Folk singer Guthrie excommunication
51 Popular pooch 6 Not as much 47 You can be caught in it
52 See 17-Across 7 U2 single whose proceeds 48 Trump critic Mitt
54 Paper quantities benefitted AIDS research 49 Chopin output
56 Free-roaming bird in the 8 ___ kin 50 “___! (There It Is)”
Melbourne Zoo 9 Tiny dot of color 53 In addition
57 Wimbledon washroom 10 Vote of approval 55 Approximate fig.
58 Final Sonics GM Sam 11 Aerosmith’s “Train Kept a-___” 58 Emulate a mastermind
60 See 17-Across 12 Like a properly prepared guitar 59 “Do-___” (The Sound of Music
64 Singer Green whose 2010 smash 13 More pale song)
hit is often called “Forget You” 18 Diesel who voices Groot 61 Rain-___ (gumball brand)
65 “America’s Cleanest City,” 19 Mars’s domain 62 Day in Acapulco
according to Forbes 23 In Risk, its continent bonus is 7 63 Hunk
LEARN TO PLAY AN INSTRUMENT
”Music represents an ideal world,” says
Jerusalem Music Centre president
Murray Perahia, “a world where all
dissonances resolve, where all
modulations, that are journeys, return
home, and where surprise and stability
coexist. If all this could be taught, the
love of music would continually
expand.” Following his lead, we’ve
created a grid on which you can learn to
play an instrument. If it seems strange,
don’t fret. It’ll strike a familiar chord
soon enough.

ACROSS
9 Flags of ___ Fathers
11 Queenly
14 Some salamanders
17 In either of two
connotations, a phrase that
describes each circled row in
this grid
20 Rang out, as church bells
23 Give three stars, perhaps
26 Genre that developed out of
punk rock
29 “There, there, it’s not ___”
32 Singer Stewart 6 Tolkien tree creature 36 Record producer Brian
34 Implored 7 She sheep 40 Film studio whose symbol is a
37 According to Edwin Starr, it’s 8 It appears seven places in lion
good for absolutely nothing the alphabet after 5-Down 41 Ottoman military officer
38 Prefix with sex or cycle 10 Northwest member of the 43 Illicit substance the Mitchell
39 Insufferable racket Four Corners Report was concerned
40 Word after mainstream or 12 “How shocking!” with, for short
mass 13 Nowhere nearby 44 Website that specializes in
42 Home theater room 15 Greek H reviews of titles for the PS4,
43 Capital of Vietnam 16 Vehicle connecting Roosevelt Xbox, and other platforms
45 Sultry West Island to Manhattan 46 Having all necessary skills
47 Vicinity 18 “You going?” response 48 Stat for Robinson Cano
50 The ___ people 19 Chow down 49 What the archetypal duck
54 Object on whose neck you’d 20 Purchases at a record store or a walks into
find all the circled rows from bank 50 Seminal rock club in New York
top to bottom 21 It displays a name and picture from 1973-2006
62 Living wall 22 Cartoon Network’s Ed, ___ 51 ___-Wan Kenobi
63 ___ and drabs n Eddy 52 Israeli diplomat Abba ___
64 Not none 24 Putting two and two together 53 Humans vs. Cylons TV
25 UCLA’s domain suffix series, to its fans
DOWN 26 Curtain adornments 54 Marxist Guevara
1 Canon camera line that 27 Bizarre 55 Citrus beverage suffix
includes the Rebel models 28 ___ work 56 “Didn’t I tell you?”
2 Screw up 30 Need to pay back 57 Alphabetic trio
3 Suffix for northwest 31 NPR host Shapiro 58 Commit perjury
4 Narcissist’s trait 33 Difference between 59 Employ
5 It appears seven places in the consecutive integers 60 ___ Bo (workout routine)
alphabet before 8-Down 35 Vitamin bottle info 61 Deli option
TREAT THE SICK WITH KINDNESS
What do you say to someone who’s
terribly ill? The first step might be
removing the word “terribly” from your
vocabulary. In a New York Times
column, Walking the Bible author Bruce
Feiler details six things you should never
say to a sick person, even though you
might think they’re innocent words.
One was “Did you try that mango
colonic I recommended?” The other five
things not to say are in this puzzle.

ACROSS
1 Penalize for swearing, perhaps,
in the NBA
4 Taking to court
9 Independence Day vessels
13 With 17-Across, seemingly
comforting words you
shouldn’t actually say to a sick
person
16 Vivacity
17 See 13-Across
18 Wriggly fish
19 ___ Alley (music publishers’ street)
20 Drags through the mud
22 Two times tetra-
23 They pilot 9-Across 62 Checkup 31 Bloodletter’s critter
24 Greek X 63 See 60-Across 32 Classic Pontiac muscle cars
27 Blasé comments 64 TV’s Warrior Princess 33 Pear variety
28 Seemingly comforting words you 65 “It’s someone ___ problem” 35 Comedian Mort
shouldn’t actually say to a sick 66 Street haunted by Freddy 36 Instrument whose name comes
person Krueger from the word hautbois
33 Bloom County cartoonist 37 Magnum, P.I. extra, most likely
Breathed DOWN 38 Misfortune
34 Snitch 1 Walk like a cat burglar 39 Letter after kay
35 Seemingly comforting words you 2 50 to 1 actor Skeet 40 Faucet
shouldn’t actually say to a sick 3 Adds to a garden 44 Much ___ About Nothing
person 4 Couch 45 “Read my lips: ___ taxes”
41 “___ le roi!” (“Down with the 5 Atop (1988 Bush campaign pledge)
king!”) 6 Suffix with cash or bombard 46 Filmmaker’s Apple-ication?
42 Tab and RC 7 Votes from the opposition 47 Bird that impales its prey on
43 Seemingly comforting words you 8 2011 cartoon___ & Juliet thorns
shouldn’t actually say to a sick 9 Umlauted prefix 48 Traffic light
person 10 Painted on fresh plaster 49 Where you might work out
47 Plane that could exceed 2000 KPH 11 Vinaigrette ingredient after work
50 Glee star ___ Michele 12 “Help, we’re sinking!” 52 Area in London or NYC
51 ___ Pérignon 14 Steroid injector’s injector 54 Tomato type
52 ___ Tzu 15 As a result of 55 Jodie Foster role
53 Like some transfers 21 “___ me anything” 56 Turn through the wind,
56 TV host Stephanopoulos 25 Guatemalan greeting nautically
58 Sony laptop brand 26 One way to sit by 57 St. Tropez summers
60 With 63-Across, seemingly 28 Poisonous evergreen 58 Trouble
comforting words you 29 “Jesus ___ Gun” (Fuel song) 59 Lumberjack’s tool
shouldn’t actually say to a sick 30 Letters on an Odessan’s 61 Monogram of the author of
person Olympic uniform Treasure Island
GET IN THE HABIT OF DANCING
”Get in the habit of dancing,” said 18th
century Rabbi Nachman of Brezlov. “It
will displace depression and dispel
hardship.” We’ve given you 16 clues to
get in that habit, each answered by a
dance—but it’s not clued as one. So
TWIST might be clued as “Orphan
Oliver.” Note the letter in each square
where two dances meet, and reading
down, you’ll get one more dance.

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

ACROSS
1 Horse’s gait
5 Celebrity chef Bobby
9 What a hall monitor, a Girl
Scout, and Miss America have
in common
13 Car company that makes the
Quattro
14 Subtitled “language” in
Airplane!
15 ___ Go? (moon-landing
conspiracy film)
16 Ariz. neighbor
17 Leave out
18 “Everybody Ought to Have 58 Brother/bandmate of Jackie, 20 Beginning
___” (Sondheim song) Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael 21 Elvis’s blue shoe material
19 Toothpaste option 59 ___-la-la 23 Arctic bird
20 Spheres 60 Cause of tears in the kitchen 24 Brand of breath mints
21 Wobble, as an axle 61 Last letter of the NATO 26 Beantown baseballers, to
22 Disney World site phonetic alphabet sportswriters
24 Eliminate the chaff from 62 Word embroidered on a towel 28 They have coming-out parties
25 Enterprise opening? 63 Johnny 5, WALL-E, or Bender 29 Jackass
26 Honey Nut Cheerios mascot, 64 Change for a five 30 It’s covered in kernels
for one 65 “Step ___!” 31 Tortoise opponent
27 “I am ___/I am what I play” 66 Grp. 32 “You bet!”
(David Bowie lyric) 67 I Love Lucy actor Arnaz 33 Cosmic ice ball
30 Blow a huge lead 68 My Little ___ 35 “Now I ___ me down…”
33 Firewood amount 38 Actor Christoph of Spectre
34 Projectionist’s need DOWN 39 Madrid museum
36 Acorn, eventually 1 ___ & Cash 42 Twilight sequel
37 Like the secure verification 2 Bruce and Demi’s daughter 45 Despot Amin
system used by Google 3 Entertainment Tonight cohost 48 African breed of cattle
40 Playtex purchase Nancy 50 Mother’s brother’s wife
41 Good source of fiber 4 They’ll get you into a show 51 A long way
43 “Crucify” singer Tori 5 Glacially formed inlets 52 Dictation taker
44 Dangerous 6 Neither Heaven nor Hell 53 Senator Hatch of Utah
46 Iris setting 7 Rental car company 54 Uncivil
47 Superman villain, familiarly 8 So far 55 Sesenta minutos
48 Ball (up) 9 Comparable 56 Yoko and kin
49 Light bulb unit 10 Eve’s mate 57 Thoracic cage components
51 President dubbed the “Father 11 Do one leg of a triathlon 58 Melody
of the Constitution” 12 Actress Lamarr 61 Superman II villain, familiarly
55 Strait of ___ (Persian Gulf outlet) 15 Author Roald 62 Leg of an airplane trip
BE A BETTER BOSS
Being a boss means being in charge, but
there are right ways and wrong ways to
treat your employees. The right way
goes back all the way to Deuteronomy,
which says, “You shall not oppress a
hired worker who is poor and needy,
whether he is one of your brothers or
one of the sojourners who are in your
land within your towns.” Here is a
cautionary sequence of ways you should
not treat your valued employee.

ACROSS
1 Sam’s Club competitor
7 Unfortunate fact of life in Sudan
10 Prefix with adjusted
13 Shows up
15 State west of Mont.
16 Narita datum
17 If your employee says “Let’s
make widgets!” you don’t...
19 “i” lid?
20 Popular Father’s Day gift
21 If your employee says “I sold
some widgets!” you don’t...
23 Comes to a halt
25 Sounds of sighs
26 Sue Sylvester’s series 66 Grow gray 31 Kate Middleton’s sister
27 “Rumor ___...” 67 Martial Bruce 32 Palme ___ (Cannes Film Festival
31 The ___ Club (show hosted by 68 Reverend who watched birds... award)
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker) er, botched words 33 Pre-holiday day
32 If your employee says “Can we 69 Even so 34 Like many briefings
make nacho cheese widgets?” 70 Wacky 35 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap band
you don’t... 71 Like a brat 36 Tugboat signal
39 Cirque du Soleil show featuring a 37 MTV show until 2008
giant egg DOWN 38 “w00t!”
40 Captain Morgan’s drink 1 Hierarchical social grouping 44 Sound heard by a circus crowd or
41 Flatfoot 2 Choose to participate from a circus crowd
42 “...man ___ mouse?” 3 Film in which Jan de Bont threw 45 Who has set foot on Mars
43 If your employee says “I Keanu Reeves under the bus 46 Target for a bowhunter
mislabeled the nacho cheese 4 Leaves during breakfast? 49 “Yep, ___” (words on a 1997
widgets,” you don’t... 5 Pasture newborn Time cover featuring Ellen
47 Landscaper’s purchase 6 Killer whale DeGeneres)
48 In base 8 7 One of the D’s in 3D 50 Funerary song
49 “Headache with pictures,” 8 “So long, amigos!” 51 Wired
according to Fry from Futurama 9 “Round and Round” band 52 Foolhardily encouraged
51 Trouble 10 Boneless portion of beef 54 Disappointing response to an
53 ___ switch 11 Seek redemption invite
57 If your employee says “I’ll relabel 12 Hanukkah pancake 55 Network director Sidney
the nacho cheese widgets,” you 14 ___ Lanka 56 Not convinced
don’t... 18 Send over the moon 58 City in which Mideast peace
62 Pool necessity 22 Network of House Hunters accords were negotiated in 1993
63 Warning from an angry dog 24 “Steady as ___ goes” 59 Some batteries
64 If your employee says “You 28 “Extra Dry” antiperspirant brand 60 Measures of national economies
mislabeled the nacho cheese 29 Undesirable sorts 61 Black, in poetry
widgets!” you don’t... 30 Soul singer ___ Thomas 65 London lavatory
MAKE LIGHT OF YOUR SUFFERING
The heart of Jewish comedy is suffering.
In his book The People of the Joke,
author Elliott Oring describes Jewish
humor as “transcending the conditions
of despair and… distinctive in its
reflection of an unperturbable optimism
and zest for living.” Of course, in these
quotes from famous Jewish comedians,
you might have to dig pretty darn deep
for that optimism and zest for living.

ACROSS
1 1051, to Nero
4 Potato pancake
9 Moist
13 “When I was kidnapped, my
parents snapped into action.
They ___.”—Woody Allen
17 “One year they wanted to make
me poster boy... ___.”—Rodney
Dangerfield
18 Billfold contents
19 Gandalf portrayer McKellen
20 Certain French vowel sounds
21 Crossed (out)
22 Buddy
23 Film studio whose logo roars
24 Camera’s eye 61 Notice 28 Airy-voiced Irish singer
25 Excites 62 The Offspring hit “The Kids ___ 29 Backtalk
30 German city that hosts the Alright” 30 Accusatory words from Caesar
world’s largest board game 63 Big fat mouth 31 Exchange
convention 32 Prepare clothes for laundering
33 “You got it, captain!” DOWN 33 “I found it!”
34 “99 Luftballons” singer/band 1 “Fantastic” Roald Dahl title 36 Enter Heathrow, in a way
35 “When you’re in love it’s the character 37 Steroid-linked Yankees slugger,
most glorious ___ of your life.”— 2 Sierra ___ for short
Richard Lewis 3 The Woman ___ (Gene Wilder 38 Discombobulate
39 ___ and feathers film) 43 Humble
40 Historical period 4 Maui neckwear 44 French existentialist who wrote
41 Some psychics read them 5 Rocky’s wife Nausea
42 Like most Lady Gaga songs 6 Smashes up, as a car 45 Person about 60% likely to be a
44 Financial advisor Orman 7 Baseball commissioner Bowie Mormon
46 Antiquated 8 And the like 48 “Neato!”
47 Chowed down on 9 Current producer 49 Dwarven realm where Gandalf
48 Baseball execs 10 They may be visual or martial fought the Balrog
51 Catcher Jorge who spent his 11 Ex-Seahawks coach Jim 50 Like hills in San Francisco or the
entire 17-year career with the 12 Where to wear your Speedo price of platinum
Yankees 14 “Very funny” network 51 In favor of
55 Victoria’s Secret purchase 15 Mutt 52 “My bad!”
56 Plunder 16 Sounders’ assoc. 53 Put your best foot forward?
57 “It’s a good thing that beauty is 22 Milk actor Sean 54 ___ charge (free)
only skin deep, or I’d be ___.”— 23 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 55 Orange Free State settler
Phyllis Diller author Angelou 56 Component of some HDTVs
60 “Tragedy is when I cut my finger. 24 Car dealer’s contract 58 Pan Am competitor, back in the
Comedy is when you walk into an 26 Not warranted day
___.”—Mel Brooks 27 Cook tuna, perhaps 59 Suffix with differ or depend
MARVEL AT THORNS AMID ROSES
”Instead of being annoyed with roses
that have thorns,” the Proverbs of
Joshua instruct us, “you should marvel
at thorns encircled by roses.” This grid
contains 11 thorns. For each one, the
four outer circled squares spell R-O-S-E
in a circle, starting in any square. After
you finish, read the shaded thorns
encircled by the roses, column by
column, to reveal our flowery
description of these roses.

ACROSS
1 Tween-targeted Zac Efron movie
franchise, to its fans
4 Absolutely Fabulous network
7 Discrimination against the elderly,
for example
13 Website with the slogan “Discover
the expert in you”
15 Fol-de-___ (1972 Sid and Marty
Krofft special)
16 Magician’s exclamation
17 Incur criticism
19 Blew a horn
20 Shake, as a problem
22 Garbage boat
23 Sullivan and McMahon 63 Opportunities for Miguel Cabrera 30 TiVos, for example
24 “No ___, ands, or buts!” 64 Film site 31 Fight Club actor Jared
25 Where 38-Across work 65 Clever 32 Groups of mos.
27 Sault ___ Marie 33 Fey of 30 Rock
28 “As a follow-up to that...” DOWN 34 Scarfs down
33 Coffee, ___ Me? (1967 book billed 1 Living fence 37 One of 200 at the
as a flight attendant’s memoirs) 2 Rip apart Indianapolis 500
35 Golfer Ernie 3 Castle encirclements 38 Some flightless birds
36 At any time 4 Not as protracted 39 Ominous question for a
37 People who tell tall tales 5 People who tell dull tales doctor
38 They assist MDs 6 Egyptian ruler with a killer asp, 41 Winnebagos, for short
39 Mates for does familiarly 42 “Slow down, you move ___”
40 Not pro 7 Fitting (Simon & Garfunkel lyric)
41 Letter between pi and sigma 8 Concerto ___ (form of baroque 44 Ensemble
42 Trunk music featuring a full orchestra) 47 It only counts in horseshoes
43 April 10-18, 2017 9 Govt. agency that defends and hand grenades
45 Pained reactions against 7-Across 48 Where some owls live
46 Nation with a 2016 election 10 Phrase used in analogies 49 The Little Mermaid
47 Place for a corn skewer 11 Crockpot creation 50 Send an email back
48 Soap unit 12 Video game variant 51 The Whole Nine Yards
51 Comment from a dark alley, 14 Environmental org. whose logo actress Amanda
perhaps is a panda, or Vince McMahon’s 52 Belgrade native
54 Sentient co. before the former sued him 53 600 home run club member
57 Take to the airport 18 Popular corn chips Sammy
59 Route 66 excursion 21 Isn’t made of stone 55 Screws up
60 Iran, formerly 26 Some colas 56 Grp. protested in a 1999
61 Google Reader feed 27 Indian dresses Seattle riot
62 Scott Turow book whose title is a 28 Managua mister 57 Sauna site
term for a first-year law student 29 Approaches 58 Notes after mis
SHARE GIFTS WITH YOUR PARTNER
”When a husband and wife give gifts to
one another in a spirit of friendship,”
Rabbi Avraham Kass writes, “it creates
between them feelings of camaraderie,
affection, and closeness.” We scoured
the Chicago Public Library’s modern list,
on which the 4th anniversary gift is
“appliances.” What else will you share?

ACROSS
1 Result for 23-Down, briefly
4 Locations
9 Gift for a 50th anniversary you’ll
always treasure?
13 Former Bruin Bobby
14 Gift for a trippy 43rd anniversary?
16 Aussie hoppers
17 Gift for someone observing a 48th
anniversary?
19 Gift for a luminous 34th
anniversary?
20 “___ til you drop!”
21 Post-shower powder
23 Squabbling
24 Gift for a 32nd anniversary that’ll
drive you wild?
27 Gift for an epic 46th anniversary?
31 “Don’t flip your ___!” DOWN 36 Gift for a 31st anniversary to
32 Opera highlights 1 Jerry’s feline adversary watch for?
34 Payoff for a dirty cop 2 Chenoweth who originated the 37 Breakfast bread
35 Gift for a playful 24th anniversary? role of Glinda in Wicked 41 Acronym for a type of
38 “Who’s with me?” response 3 Gift for a flowery 28th webpage feed
39 Chills, as a beverage anniversary? 42 It’s easy as 1, 2, 3
40 Days of ___ (olden times) 4 Come to a halt 43 Pair
42 Eve’s companion 5 Gov’t tax agcy. 44 Cleopatra’s venomous killer
45 Gift for a 41st anniversary that 6 Tic ___ (candy) 46 Grp. that defends the Second
means a lot? 7 First 4G phone Amendment
50 Gary of Lethal Weapon 8 Aug. follower 47 Gift for a 55th anniversary
52 Lock of hair 9 Gift for a tasteful 44th that’ll make others green with
53 Mad ___ anniversary? envy?
54 Gift for a fitting 22nd anniversary? 10 Alley-___ 48 Platter that holds the rest of
56 Gift for a picturesque 26th 11 Mauna ___ the service
anniversary? 12 High-speed Internet option 49 Weekend Update show, for
57 Bit of laughter 15 “Look before you ___” short
58 Apple’s tablet 18 What zombies do 51 Informal affirmation
60 Biting 22 High, slow tennis shot 55 Cheerleaders’ encouragement
61 Gift for an edgy 8th anniversary? 23 Boxer Muhammad 57 Rabbit’s foot
64 Gift for a 16th anniversary that’ll 24 Heartless 59 Lavish affection (on)
bowl you over? 25 Gets in one’s crosshairs 60 Overly cute
69 Group of voters 26 British singer/songwriter 61 Lady Bird’s hubby
70 Gift for a 27th anniversary that’s a Corinne Bailey ___ 62 ___ mode
bust? 28 “Tiny” boy in A Christmas Carol 63 Oft-fried fish
71 Former Enron CEO Kenneth 29 Slugger’s stat 65 Chap
72 Gift for a rocky 35th anniversary? 30 Japanese currency 66 UK “Inc.”
73 Vedder of Pearl Jam 32 Parabola 67 Yes, to Yvette
74 Become a redhead, perhaps 33 Justice League director Zack 68 Cyclops feature
SING OUT AGAINST PREJUDICE
Kabbala talks about ten melodies that
will sound the march toward freedom.
Nine have been revealed, but the tenth
cannot be sung until freedom has been
attained. We’ve given you nine modern
tunes that stand up against prejudice.
The name of that tenth melody is found
reading down the circled letters. Sing
out loud, because we still have some
marching to do.

ACROSS
1 Calculate a total
4 Keister
8 Russian rifles, slangily
11 1970 Kermit the Frog tune about
skin color
14 1980 Peter Gabriel tune about the
government murder of a black
activist
16 1963 Bob Dylan tune adopted as a
Civil Rights Movement anthem
19 Gillette razor
20 4 on a phone
21 ___ fixe (psychological
preoccupation)
22 “If all ___ fails...”
25 What George got from a diner on a 69 Box office offerings, for short 28 Greek letter
classic Seinfeld episode 70 NFL stars Marino and Dierdorf 29 Soft & ___ (deodorant brand)
27 Seattle brewery with an 71 Lamb’s mom 30 30 minutes of football
appropriately colored logo 31 Diamond bloopers
31 Alternative to .gov DOWN 34 King Kong screamer Wray
32 Choose 1 “Dancing Queen” quartet 35 Scottish caps
33 1939 Billie Holiday tune about 2 Shoulder muscle, briefly 39 Seven, in ancient Rome
lynchings 3 Couturier Christian 40 Bed and breakfast, perhaps
36 Use a catamaran 4 ___ Friday’s 41 Degree awarded for passing oral
37 1976 Bob Marley tune about the 5 Mantelpiece item exams?
inevitably violent results of racism 6 Six, in modern Rome 43 Caviar, essentially
38 Eager 7 Neolithic British monument 44 Bert’s roommate
42 1992 En Vogue tune decrying 8 Homer’s pops 45 Co. that merged with Continental
judgment based on outward 9 Fruit with brown skin and green 46 2016 Olympics venue
appearance flesh 47 Flyswatter sound
47 Pullman sch. of the Cougars 10 “23 ___!” (1920s phrase meaning 48 Less nutso
50 Bruin Bobby “hightail it outta here!”) 49 Capable
51 Sun-Maid snacks 12 Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren, 53 Soda once named “Brad’s Drink”
52 Come to pass and DJ Yella 54 Like a fully equipped racing shell
54 Nobel Peace Prize city 13 Arbitrarily high degree 57 How most bananas are eaten
55 Kick in some chips 15 Get the better of 58 Viscous substance
56 401(k) alternative 17 One of over a billion religious 59 Guided by Voices box set Suitcase
58 Spew forth adherents 3: ___ Go Now
62 1984 Depeche Mode tune about 18 Part of DOD or DOJ 60 Triple Crown winner Seattle ___
the irrationality of blind hatred 22 Very long time 61 This place
67 1986 Public Image Ltd tune 23 Fell trees 63 Supervillain Luthor
condemning apartheid 24 Shish kebab need 64 Neolithic, for one
68 2010 Kesha tune written in protest 26 Cannes consent 65 Dominate, in online slang
of the bullying of gay youth 27 Type of feed on an HTML page 66 Noncommittal comments
KNOW WHAT YOU EAT
A diet is more than just a way to lose a
few pounds. The Letter of Aristeas, an
Egyptian document describing Hebrew
dietary laws, says that observing a diet
plan helps “to aid the quest for virtue
and the perfecting of character.”
Usually, of course, that means giving up
some things. Here’s a set of dietary
plans noted by what you can eat under
them, and what you can’t.

ACROSS
1 Like some stadiums
6 The set of Harry Potter films
(but not books), for example
11 Family Matters actor Reginald
___Johnson
14 Satirist’s tool
15 Skin mags
16 Prefix with friendly or tourism
17 YES: fish, broccoli, bread; NO:
pork, chicken, cheeseburgers
19 Pai ___ (gambling game)
20 Meh
21 Biblical boat
22 Me, ___, and Irene
24 What a credit card holder may
rack up 60 “Bali ___” 23 Flower part
26 It’s brewed from dried petals 61 YES: broccoli, bread, steak 25 Dungeons & Dragons language
27 Happened to (occasionally); NO: steak 26 Pertaining to the kidneys
30 Part of mph (usually) 27 Automated piece of software
31 Flashback setting 64 Cockpit announcement, briefly 28 Feature of a rabbit or elephant
32 Kayaker’s need 65 Edmonton hockey player 29 YES: bananas, pecans, sunflower
33 YES: bananas, broccoli, pecans; 66 Former Attorney General Edwin seeds; NO: steak, broccoli, bread
NO: ice cream, steak, fish 67 Stimpy’s Chihuahua pal 30 Airline that collapsed in 1991
35 Roller coaster safety feature 68 They hold your horses 34 Horror cartoonist Wilson
36 Cease-fire 69 Acts petulant 35 Hay rolls
38 Santa ___ winds 37 Level of society
39 Breathing DOWN 40 By way of
42 Lord of the Rings actor 1 Has a momentary downturn 41 Bollix things up
McKellen or Holm 2 Black-and-white cookie 44 How a kite may be held
43 YES: broccoli, steak (if the 3 Forest carpet 46 YES: bananas, steak (if the
proper laws are followed); NO: 4 Render a message secret proper laws are followed); NO:
pork, alcohol 5 Go blond, perhaps pork, cheeseburgers, oysters
45 Broadcast 6 Dizzying designs 47 Invent
46 Seattle channel that broadcasts 7 Stopper 48 Player who wears a different
Sesame Street 8 One more than bi- uniform than her teammates
48 Body part highlighted by a 9 Bewitch 50 Ghetto blaster
floozy’s dress 10 Hamilton won 11 of these 52 Due to get
49 Former UFC and WWE 11 YES: broccoli, ice cream, bread; 53 Duos
champion Brock NO: pork, steak, fish 55 Oregon Trail beasts of burden
51 Homer’s method of storytelling 12 Schools in French? 57 In ___ of (replacing)
53 Comment on a message board 13 YES: skim milk, egg-white 58 Crow’s-nest supporter
54 Venus’s younger sister omelets, chicken; NO: ice cream, 59 Bills in soda machines
55 Dunderhead cheeseburgers, donuts 62 Super Bowl XLVI MVP Manning
56 Ticklish PBS character 18 Postpone 63 Rock concert equipment
COME TO SOMEONE’S RESCUE
”Whoever saves a life,” the Talmud
says, “it is considered as if he saved an
entire world.” In this puzzle, we’re all
about saving lives. There are quite a few
out there in need of rescuing, and this
puzzle will show you the process of
doing so. Take a walk through it, and if
you find your heartstrings being tugged
upon, there’s someone out there hoping
you’ll come find them.

ACROSS
1 Mrs., in Marseilles
4 Charlie Brown’s outburst
8 One getting no benefits
12 Corn serving
13 Statement by one playing tag
or hide and seek
14 Detergent brand
15 Step one of a rescue
19 “The rent ___ damn high!”
(2010s NYC political slogan)
20 One of Jacob’s wives
21 Yoo-___ (chocolate drink)
22 Step two of a rescue
26 Six: Prefix
27 Mars or Mercury, e.g.
28 Some mag pages DOWN 30 Activity that occurs past one’s
31 Where the Wild Things ___ 1 Battlefield doctor bedtime
33 Character with a titular 2 Swampy area 32 Common tree
wedding in a 1994 movie 3 Prefix for love, as in front of - 33 Billy Davis Jr.’s singing partner
36 Step three of a rescue mania and wife Marilyn
40 Outlook contents 4 Sugar found in genetic material 34 Shoe width least like AAA
41 Apple product 5 2015 documentary about the 35 Trippy drug
42 Mark Wahlberg comedy with a singer of “Rehab” 37 Look that indicates character
2015 sequel 6 ___ Hortons (Canadian coffee 38 Ingenious simplicity or grace
43 “___ haw!” shop chain) 39 Shakespearean baddie
44 Dorky fellow 7 “Gangnam ___” 45 Eviction from office
47 Step four of a rescue 8 International Court of Justice site 46 Bric-a-___
55 Firm with the world’s largest 9 Squirmy critter 47 Scrooge comment
insurance revenues 10 Believer in the prevenient, 48 Google Maps may calculate it
56 Egypt-based show justifying, and sanctifying graces 49 Protocol for computerized
57 “___ bleu!” 11 Awaiting surgery song production, for short
58 Step five of a rescue 14 Chinese-American actress 50 Op-___ (newspaper pieces)
62 The Hunger Games actor Rosalind 51 Bulletin board affixers
Stanley 16 Honey lover 52 Device allowing parents to
63 He went back in time to save 17 Filming location block television programs
Sarah in The Terminator 18 Decay 53 Aunt ___ Cope Book (Bombeck
64 Scottish equivalent of “John” 23 Students’ stress points self-help tome)
65 Fencing sword 24 Governess Poppins 54 Itsy-bitsy
66 Crystal ball user 25 Michael who played Worf 59 Part of a royal flush
67 Singer of the song referenced 28 Grow gray 60 Deli bread
in 7-Down 29 Rep.’s opponent 61 French island
SILENCE YOUR CRITICS
An old Jewish proverb goes, “To be a
critic is easier than to be an author.”
Jonas Salk, the genius virologist whose
work helped stem the tide of polio,
was asked if the scientific community
accepted his radical approach. His coy
response was to enumerate three
“stages of truth,” which, upon
examination, are anything but.

ACROSS
1 Prime Minister Gandhi
7 Rapscallions
13 Become more complex
14 Reply to “I promise I’ll do it this
time!”
15 With 16-Across, Salk’s “first
stage of truth”
16 See 15-Across
17 Nourished
18 Tiny
20 007 creator Fleming
21 He said “the only difference
between me and the surrealists
is that I am a surrealist”
23 Former owner of America’s
tallest building
25 Mad ___ (fill-in-the-blanks 65 Gas station that may have an 23 Screwdriver component,
game) ampm store maybe
28 With 38-Across, Salk’s “second 66 Body art 24 Indian stringed instrument
stage of truth” 67 Detect 26 It may have scales or feathers
31 Common pseudonym 68 Snake eyes 27 Pigpen
32 Do better than 29 Stick around
33 Hwy. DOWN 30 Final, for one
34 Part of LGBT 1 Dictator Amin 35 Opposite of post-
35 Comrade 2 Service that streams Daredevil 37 “Shows you!”
36 Mount St. Helens output and Jessica Jones 38 Place to sip sweet tea
38 See 28-Across 3 Skullduggery 39 Normalize
45 With 59-Across, Salk’s “third 4 Tech device that went on sale 40 Sea cow
stage of truth” April 3, 2010 41 Backup singer for Gladys
46 Broadcast 5 Stimpy’s cohort Knight
47 Tarragon, for one 6 Belgian city with a prominent 42 Camden Yards team
49 Anger diamond trade 43 Maternity ward VIP
50 Most common bowling game in 7 Less hammered 44 Beat in a laugher
the US 8 Guerrilla Guevara 45 Flirt with from afar
54 Flirt with 9 ___ Spumante (Italian wine) 48 Cuban percussion instruments
55 Flatbread that accompanies 10 Keith Haring tableaux 50 Manila envelope color
chicken vindaloo 11 Gardener’s duty 51 Gives off
56 GP’s grp. 12 Missing letters in, and 52 Warrior Oscar nominee Nick
57 Receiving end of an “alley” definition of, “OB_ _RV_” 53 Hot springs amenity
58 Burger’s bread 19 Perrier, par exemple 60 The Royal Tenenbaums director
59 See 45-Across 21 Not the sharpest knife in the Anderson
63 Together, musically drawer 61 Media provocateur Coulter
64 Principle 22 Continent south of Eur. 62 Tao Te Ching author ___-tzu
GIVE LIFE TO MANY
”Blood is life” is the message from
Deuteronomy, and there is no greater
way to embrace that message than to
donate blood. Your blood donation can
help up to four people, as your blood is
composed of four vital elements. And
when you think about how much you’re
giving up, you won’t go unrewarded
either.

ACROSS
1 Corners of a diamond
6 Hedwig and Woodsy, for two
10 Insect in a cocoon
14 Colorful parrot
15 Spring
16 King Kong and Dr. Zaius, for two
17 With 22-, 37-, and 51-Across,
the four components of a
blood donation
20 Name of two of the first six
presidents
21 Additional shot, on a movie
set
22 See 17-Across
26 Daisylike flower
27 Recyclable container
28 What bouncers check DOWN 35 It merged with The WB to
30 NJ summer hours 1 The “ultimate driving machine” become The CW
31 Mount where Moses was given 2 Ooh and ___ 36 “Evil Woman” rock grp.
the Ten Commandments 3 Poli ___ 38 Cells used for in vitro
34 Em, to Dorothy 4 Patronize, as a restaurant fertilization
37 See 17-Across 5 Stockholm resident 39 A looooooooong time
41 Most common craps rolls 6 “___, All Ye Faithful” 40 Read just enough to get the
42 Weirdos 7 Receiving the fewest stars gist of
44 “___, humbug!” 8 Sass 43 Mud bath venue
47 Enthusiast 9 Bit of hate speech 44 Bluegrass instruments
48 Puppy’s playful bite 10 Agreements 45 Somewhat
49 In any way, shape, or form 11 Burning the midnight oil 46 Rock salt, to a mineralogist
51 See 17-Across 12 Cheated during hide-and-seek 50 Doritos ___ Tacos (Taco Bell
57 Like some passes from Steph 13 Declare offering)
Curry 18 Pac-12 school 52 French Open champ Rafael
59 Get broadcast by 19 In need of Dramamine, 53 Sporting goods retailer
60 What you get for donating perhaps 54 Expert
the above foursome 22 HP and Dell offerings 55 Seeing stars
65 Prefix with “mom,” in the 23 Hideout 56 Where to wear an electronic
tabloids 24 Green Gables girl monitoring device
66 Bad news for a blimp pilot or 25 You need this like a hole in your 58 Leafy vegetable related to
a covert agency head? collard greens
67 Womanizer, in rap slang 29 Shakes triggered by alcohol 61 Maiden name preceder
68 ___ Having a Baby withdrawal, for short 62 Words in a title with Sam or
69 Nearly finless fish 32 Commercials Legend
70 Country wracked by 33 Frog : lily pad :: penguin : ___ 63 LASIK target
insurgency in 2011 34 Hockey venue, likely 64 ___ Diego
DO GOOD THINGS THREE TIMES
Do something good once, Jewish
tradition suggests, and it can be passed
off as luck. A second time—lightning
sometimes strikes twice. But do it a
third time, and it’s a permanent thing, a
reflection of true commitment. The
people responsible for these endeavors
created the grandest of trilogies, of that
there can be no doubt.

ACROSS
1 Org. that assigns film ratings
5 Drench
9 Genre of 23/56-Across
13 Supermarket chain named after
a pair of oceans
15 Sharknado actress Reid
16 Burn soother
17 With “The,” grand finale of an
astounding trilogy of
novels/films
20 Fighting the flu, perhaps
21 Alley-___
22 Upscale salad greens
23 With 56-Across, grand finale of
an astounding trilogy of albums
26 Function
27 ___ and Janis (comic strip) 72 Tons 35 Final word in “Oh! Susanna”
28 Bill and ___ Excellent Adventure 73 Like rich pancake batter 37 Feline with an unrequited
31 1/336 of a fortnight love for the brick-throwing
34 Doc ___ (Spidey villain) DOWN Ignatz Mouse
36 Kindle competitor 1 Two-time Nobel recipient Curie 39 The Voice network
38 “If you ask me,” on the internet 2 Spanish rice dish 40 Pitcher’s stat
39 Grand finale of an astounding 3 Moose horn 41 2011 movie directed by
trilogy of physics principles 4 Former teenage soccer star Steven Spielberg
44 Garment that may contain Freddy 42 Coltrane’s instrument
hooks, straps, and wires 5 “That’s enough!” 43 Burr vs. Hamilton encounter
45 Shakespearean ruler 6 Lunkhead 48 Ideal trait for drinking water
46 Letter after sigma 7 Commedia dell’___ 50 It has a north and a south
47 Complain, complain, complain 8 Young Frankenstein actress pole
49 Classroom ordeal Madeline 52 Domesticating
51 Actress Catherine ___-Jones 9 Jaunty 53 Not digital
54 Either O in “XOXO” 10 It may be extra virgin 55 “Godfather of rap” ___
56 See 23-Across 11 Word with waffle or traffic Scott-Heron
59 Bedtime reading 12 Jumbo beer containers 57 Beaver’s construction
63 Goopy substance marketed by 14 What a diplomat follows 58 Book a teenage girl might
Mattel and Nickelodeon 18 Neither partner? lock
64 ___ tai 19 End of a student’s email 59 Put one foot in front of the
65 With “The,” grand finale of an address other
astounding trilogy of boxing 24 Circulatory problem 60 “___ she blows!”
matches 25 Like this grid entry 61 Fashion host Klensch
68 With 69-Across, part of Seattle or 29 Word coined on The Simpsons 62 Compete for the America’s
NYC and added to the OED in 2001 Cup
69 See 68-Across 30 “___ would seem” 66 Words heard by many a
70 Pavarotti, for one 32 Gattaca actress Thurman priest
71 What a predator follows 33 Propel a dinghy 67 Maiden name preceder
IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT WAR
Actions are more important than words,
but when it comes to opposing war,
symbols can be just as important. The
non-shaded squares show a prominent
symbol used by anti-war activists, and
this grid is filled with more of them.
Reading down the circled letters is a
Hebrew word whose letters are used as
a powerful visual symbol against war.

ACROSS
1 Place for a dagger
7 Tubular sandwich
11 Balloon’s last sound
14 “Sounds good”
15 Painful precipitation
16 With 53-Across, completely wrong
17 Kindred symbol used as the War
Resisters’ International logo
19 Device obsoleted by smartphones,
for short
20 NCIS: New Orleans star Bakula
21 Patronized one’s own kitchen
23 Separate into categories
27 She’s shorn
28 Number of porridge bowls
Goldilocks sampled
29 Blueprints 73 Improved 25 Kindred symbol adopted by
31 Facial joint? 74 Frat party container Italian anti-war protesters
33 Word with bunt or fly, in baseball 75 Larry King’s got six or seven or 26 Dynamite alternative
recaps maybe eight 30 Arm, as a 38-Across
34 No hoi polloi, they 76 Bedecks 32 ‘80s TV character from Melmac
36 Dutch ___ disease 35 Ice Age sloth
38 Feature of a supervillain’s lair DOWN 37 Blazing Saddles director Brooks
41 One that’s from Germany? 1 Sis or bro 39 In solitary
42 Whom Sarah Palin said she once 2 It follows “Hardy” twice 40 Ship whose name is Spanish for
dressed up as for Halloween 3 Narcissist’s attribute “The Spotted One”
45 ___ Baba and the Forty Thieves 4 Genesis boat 43 At this time
46 Some socialites 5 Caddy’s supplies 44 At this time
48 Happy cohort? 6 Consequently 47 Tallow maker’s supply
49 He sang a song evoking this 7 Kindred symbols worn on 50 Grp. that’s endorsed Romney
puzzle’s title September 21, a UN-founded 52 Sign next to a free sample
51 Not in the closet annual observance often 54 It comes in twice a day
53 See 16-Across accompanied by ceasefires 56 Remove the shell from
55 Nine Inch Nails rocker Reznor 8 Castaway’s vessel 57 Creepy
56 Urban pipeline 9 Suffer 59 Will & Grace actress Messing
58 Pulled off 10 Kilt features 62 Performer who never needs to
60 Oceanborne 11 Kindred symbols seen at the memorize lines
61 Like some sofas or price tags monument commemorating the 63 TV role for Bamboo Harvester
62 Peripheral with a baud rate bombing of Hiroshima 66 Loosey-goosey
64 It may begin with www 12 Song from the ‘50s, nowadays 67 Much may be made about
65 Kindred symbol on the Great 13 Dreamliner, for one nothing
Seal of the United States and 18 Follows a coxswain’s orders 68 Neither fish ___ fowl
the US dime 22 ___ Thing You Do! 69 Anderson Cooper’s channel
71 Langley org. 23 Do 60 in a 35, say 70 “___ dead, Jim!” (Star Trek
72 Luggage tag info 24 Stan’s partner in comedy phrase)
PLAY WITH YOUR BRAIN
The great Albert Einstein once said,
“Games are the most elevated form of
investigation.” Here, we encourage you
to play along. The answer words
represented by the bold clues are all
names of games, but we haven’t clued
them as such. Enjoy finding all of our
playful entries.

ACROSS
1 Hoodwink
5 Really got into
8 Doctor Who network
11 Entertainer born Maria Rosario
Pilar Martinez Molina Baeza
12 Spaniard’s number
13 One is hidden in the FedEx
logo
16 Animal of the class Chilopoda
18 Wonder Woman’s given
name
19 Youngster
20 Comeback
22 Shook off this mortal coil
23 President Obama had eight in
his office
25 Overwhelm with bewilderment
27 Angelic headgear 68 Golfer Ernie 27 Command to Silver
29 Country singer Patsy 69 Heed 28 Sulfuric, e.g.
31 Negatory answer to “Will you 29 Musical featuring “One Night
attend?” DOWN in Bangkok”
33 Type of powder used in 1 Citi Field predecessor 30 Lively manner of speaking
cooking 2 Leonardo DiCaprio’s character’s 32 Sum
34 Quiznos offering ranch in Django Unchained 33 Fire-roast
37 ___ and yang 3 Museum display 34 Diamond in an engagement
38 Tragic Shakespearean hero 4 One Tree Hill actress ___ Kelly ring, perhaps
40 Mine cart contents 5 ABC show where famous 35 Net addresses
41 Weird singers seek partners 36 Part of a turtle’s face
42 Salute with a glass in hand 6 Word in Word’s Edit pull- 39 Works overly hard
43 ___ Wafers down menu 44 It gets a lot of mail on Apr. 16
45 Cilia, commonly 7 Word after party or concert 45 Artichoke sections
46 What an actuary measures 8 Michael Jackson album 47 Alero maker, for short
47 Cursing phrase 9 Brooklyn, for one 48 Boot part
50 Be 10 Bond portrayer Daniel 49 Hank Williams’s real first
53 Senator from Alderaan 11 X´V´V name
54 Made a revelation 14 “The ___ lama, he’s a 50 Pitchers
57 Legal grp. priest...” (line by Ogden 51 Gen ___ (post-Boomer)
60 Northern Ireland city Nash) 52 Where Twin Falls is
62 Military endeavor 15 Enter the shallow end 55 Sewing machine pioneer Elias
64 Online mag that launched on 17 Each 56 Australia’s national gemstone
67-Across 21 U.S. government security 58 Carcass
65 Military endeavor 24 Many 23-Across 59 “___ Old Iron” (UK folk song)
66 Laurel’s foil 26 Type of powder used in 61 Japanese cash
67 Popular web portal cooking 63 Diet soda brand
DRESS BOLDLY
In Genesis, Joseph received a coat of
many colors from his father, signifying
the high status he would someday
reach. His jealous brothers would have
none of it, stealing Joseph’s coat and
selling him into slavery. But ascend to
status he did, proving the reactions of
others should not dictate how one
should garb oneself. Herein, you will find
many colorful garments in which you
may dress as boldly as you like.

ACROSS
1 Awareness ad, briefly
4 Diary ___ Wimpy Kid
7 Iditarod locale
13 Road surface
15 His name is in many Bibles
16 A non-playing player in college
football, or a Star Trek crewman
who’s not long for the world
17 Loser’s lament
18 Annex
19 “___ matter of fact...”
20 Wave one’s arms like Kermit
21 Rigid
23 Lush tract near a residential area
27 Sharpen DOWN 33 Go prostrate
28 Phobia 1 Admitted, in court 34 Co-founder of a skincare
29 Contest 2 Depress company with Joseph
30 Item quested for by Greeks 3 Summertime coolers, for short Lauder
35 Take off 4 Ned Beatty’s role in Superman 35 Dirty old man
37 Walkway 5 Dined alfresco? 36 ...
38 Buzzy critter 6 Suitable 38 Aircraft motion
42 Body part a QB might tear 7 Quick-footed 39 Grey of the X-Men
43 Duelist’s choice 8 Edge of Tomorrow director 40 iTunes download
44 Years and years Doug 41 Poetic word meaning
48 Foamy wave crests after which 9 Vamp “yielding, as the air”
a B.C. soccer club is named 10 What many port cities are at 45 Beck album often on best-
52 It may be pressed to the metal 11 Renders unconscious, for short of-the-1990s lists
53 Ex-governor of 7-Across 12 Per DreamWorks, a hexapod; 46 Microscopic robot of sci-fi
54 Take to court per Pixar, a tetrapod 47 Feeds hogs
56 He co-produced a U2 song 13 Impertinent 49 Farewells
whose title is his name reversed 14 Genghis ___ 50 Cheer
57 Rice antihero 20 Bar plant 51 Referred to
59 Layoff notice 22 Majestic 52 Nickname of a small dog
61 Operate a Piper Cub 24 Singer Carly ___ Jepsen breed
62 Computer security consultants, 25 Hair irritants 55 E pluribus ___
colloquially 26 Golf bag item 57 Part of a NASCAR race
63 Succeeded at a test 28 Took off 58 Actress Longoria
64 “Stand” band 31 Egg: Prefix 59 Hipster beer brand, briefly
65 Ocular organ 32 Like forgeries 60 Gendered term for a boat
TRY TO REMEMBER
”Memory cannot recall more than what
was forgotten,” Moses ibn Ezra wrote.
That was a long time ago, when there
was less to remember. With the
information overload of the modern
age, it’s harder than ever to remember
critical details. Certain mnemonics—
memory-jostling sentences—can make
this task easier. Here are five common
mnemonics for lists we might forget.

ACROSS
1 Paint lightly
4 Actor Ventimiglia
8 Control, as a scandal
12 Drive-in that serves limeades
14 “Like that could ever happen”
15 Series that includes Reach
16 What “Every Good Boy Does
Fine” evokes
19 Use a sight
20 Portrayer of a Bill-killing Beatrix
21 Infuse with bubbles
22 What “Richard Of York Gave
Battle In Vain” evokes
26 Response to “Some haggis?”
27 Plopped down
28 Storehouse DOWN 32 ___ Always Sunny in
31 Actress Carrere 1 Gray seen in a picture Philadelphia
34 iPad option 2 Shortage of iron 33 Android program
37 Assist 3 Crab feast necessity 35 Gingerly bite
38 What “Will A Jolly Man Make 4 Large parrots 36 Courthouse words
A Jolly Visitor?” evokes 5 St. Croix, e.g. 38 Progressive woman
43 One of 78 in Buckingham Palace 6 Prevarication 39 Network started as Pax TV
44 Tater 7 Organ meats 40 Ruts
45 One likely with a negative 8 Bakes eggs 41 Central European valley
approval rating, these days 9 Like the multinational cuisine 42 First name of the Queen
46 It’s not lightly suffered at some fusion restaurants of Jazz
48 U2 album Rattle & ___ 10 ABBA’s “___ the Music 47 Baskin-Robbins offerings
50 ___ Misérables Speak” 49 French term of respect
53 What “Super Man Helps 11 Schnozz 51 Just barely get
Every One” evokes 12 Symbol on ESP cards 52 Decorous
59 Hydrocodone, e.g. 13 Symbol on playing cards 54 UFO inhabitants
61 Daft Punk, e.g. 17 Angsty music style 55 Quartz repository
62 Sound a mouse hears 18 Fifth sign 56 Outfit for saying 36-Down
63 What “King Phillip Cried Out 23 Team that got Pierce and 57 Möbius strip, e.g.
For Good Soup” evokes Garnett from the Celtics in 58 Vodka brand with a cobalt
67 Fencer’s item 2013 blue bottle
68 Small fluid measurement 24 Reached a point of requiring 59 Mineral deposits
69 ___ Shore Is Dead (‘03 film) payment 60 Elderly Smurf
70 Respond impertinently to 25 Lex Luthor’s idiot henchman 64 Futurama character
71 Heroine Jane 29 Drunk 65 Roadway material
72 Piggy’s home 30 Takes too much 59-Acrosses 66 Illmatic rapper
ACT WHEN DANGER STRIKES
Leviticus 19:16 tells us, “Do not stand by
while your neighbor’s blood is shed.”
Recent disasters have shown the true
heroism of those who are willing to
throw themselves into dangerous
situations as they happen before them.
This puzzle welcomes some of them into
our midst, with rousing applause.

ACROSS
1 Olive Garden specialty
6 Pealed
10 Concrete unit
14 Critter in a river
15 Some Kind of Beautiful star Jessica
16 Subject of a Dante book
17 Some people who rush into
danger
19 Helper
20 Greek letter
21 Make unfair, as a game
22 Show host
23 Some people who rush into
danger
28 Concur
29 Date on a musician’s calendar
30 Black and white cookies
31 Report from a pistol DOWN 34 Proof of an ad’s
33 In a tussle 1 Francis’s title publication
37 Some people who rush into 2 Walking war machine in The 35 ___ La Douce (Jack
danger Empire Strikes Back Lemmon film)
40 Hit with a stun gun 3 They often have candy 36 They’re between you and
41 Ye ___ Curiosity Shop 4 Tazo offering your plane
42 Battlestar Galactica 5 Give weapons to 38 Housetop
Commander 6 Automotive option 39 Neck part
43 UK convenience 7 Square up 43 Hawaiian gift
44 The Barber of Seville, e.g. 8 Sunday Night Football network 44 Andouille sausage
45 Some people who rush into 9 Neon, e.g. accompaniment
danger 10 Name of many SeaWorld orcas 45 Piano-playing Muppet dog
51 Resident of Muscat 11 German camera brand 46 You might check it on
52 Word before Gang or Town 12 Salmon-smoking wood your phone
53 Game of Thrones network 13 Hemorrhage 47 Knight’s weapon
56 The Wizarding World of Harry 18 Least great Great Lake 48 End of a book, perhaps
Potter souvenir 22 Oft-poached item 49 Seeped
57 Some people who rush into 24 Got vertical 50 Meld-making game
danger 25 Exam 54 Military location
61 Tiny pests 26 With eyes and mouth wide 55 Psychic’s warning
62 “Excuse me for interrupting” 27 Airport transport 57 Jordan of the Green
63 Chunky 28 Part of 44-Across Lantern Corps
64 Pump, as muscles 30 Frequently 58 “I have discovered
65 Dog in a Disney pic 31 Farther down something!”
66 Like some extras in The 32 “Acid” 59 Turf ___ (football injury)
Walking Dead 33 European viper 60 Not yet scheduled, briefly
EMBRACE YOUR MISTAKES
”People often avoid making decisions
out of fear of making a mistake,” writes
Rabbi Noah Weinberg in 48 Ways to
Wisdom. “Actually, the failure to make
decisions is one of life’s biggest
mistakes.” Many discoveries came by
accident, with the discoverer willing to
make errors. For example, Rogaine was
found in the search for a blood-pressure
drug. Can you learn what else was
invented by mistake?

ACROSS
1 Member of the Beastie Boys
with Mike D and Ad-Rock
4 Swindle
8 Questions
12 Aircraft, to one at Orly
14 Amy’s frequent cohost
15 Norse letter
16 Result of trying to invent a
synthetic rubber substitute
18 2001 Kevin Spacey bomb
19 ___ Alto
20 One of a trio in 20 Questions
22 Night before
23 Result of trying to invent a
battleship engine part 69 It may be a baby’s first word 29 Result of trying to invent a
25 Year, to Jaunita 70 Muppet who likes to be tickled malaria cure
26 Colored like a fire truck 71 Steam 31 Popeye’s Olive ___
27 Grave and dignified 72 Goulash, e.g. 32 Say Yes to the Dress network
30 Type of horn or bank 73 Sing like Rod Stewart 33 Vegas hotel that hosts the
32 ___-la-la 74 It blows up in Wile E. Coyote’s World Series of Poker
35 Tiny bit face 34 Result of trying to invent anti-
36 Like hair after a salon visit ulcer medication
39 Sax-playing Simpson DOWN 36 ___ finish
41 Legal status after turning 18 1 It precedes watt or liter 37 Skeleton’s prefix
43 “That kind of ___ just ain’t for 2 Punctuation marks used in 38 Where a fox may sleep
us, we crave a different kind of analogies 40 Suffer
buzz” (Lorde’s “Royals”) 3 Whichever 42 DiCaprio, to friends
44 Plagiarized 4 What a phaser may be set to 45 New York’s coast
46 Ingredient in many parmigiana 5 New York’s ___ Field 47 Big fib
dishes 6 Paul Rudd’s Avenger 50 Baywatch alum Anderson
48 Years and years 7 Like the Pyramid of the Sun 51 Crocheted item
49 Chicken ___ king 8 Noah’s boat 52 Flights of fancy
50 People wonder if it’ll play there 9 Result of trying to invent a gun 53 Target with a pistol
52 State Department concern sight 55 Piston’s opponent, frequently
54 One may buy lots of cucumbers 10 Jack 57 Sprang
56 Result of trying to invent a 11 Part of a H.S. health class 58 Yes ___ question
form of refrigerant 12 Venomous snakes 59 ___-do-well
60 Assassin’s contract 13 Perfume container 62 Trees affected by a disease
61 Least wild 17 Spacecraft’s cargo identified by Dutch
64 Roberts’s Pretty Woman co-star 21 Apartment type sought after phytopathologists
65 Apple computer by artists 63 Food for a pig
67 Result of trying to invent a 24 Decorative fish 66 Crow’s call
stain-resistant tablecloth 28 SEA announcement 68 Lowest-ranked G.I.
DON’T LET AGE SLOW YOU DOWN
”The prosperity of a country can be seen
simply in how it treats its old people,”
writes Rabbi Nachman of Brezlov. If so,
the persons spotlighted in this puzzle
make their countries very prosperous
indeed. Accomplishing their most
notable achievements after seven
decades or more, these five give us hope
that it is never too late to dream.

ACROSS
1 Convenience store treats
6 Build up
11 Child’s oft-repeated question
14 Mass times acceleration
15 Artist fond of haystacks
16 Color
17 He published his first
comprehensive dictionary at 70
19 Mischief maker
20 Approximately
21 Like candles on a cake
22 “Essen,” in English
24 Mao ___-tung
25 Manipulate
26 Cayman Islands account
holders, perhaps
30 She began painting at 76 DOWN 32 Tends to
32 ___ Rafael, CA 1 Otherwise 35 Putin’s veto
33 UK record label 2 Brand with cans that change 36 Sight on some whale
34 Bart’s gramps based on temperature watching tours
35 He was elected president at 75 3 Clear, as a chalkboard 37 Kind of tide
40 Color changer 4 Cave phenomenon 38 Birdbrain?
41 Place to get outdoor gear 5 Make a quilt 39 Ice cream brand namesake
42 Laudatory poem 6 Brand of sleep aid 40 Fatboy Slim and Tiësto, for
43 She won her first Oscar at 80 7 Word found in many yearbook example
48 Planetarium souvenir awards 44 B’way sellout sign
49 Prefix for some school subjects 8 Hill dweller 45 Urges
50 Weep 9 View 46 Secret Service members
53 One overly focused on fashion 10 Brook 47 Jonathan Coulton fan,
54 Each 11 Macy’s event perhaps
55 Back of a 56-Across or 38-Down 12 Run smoothly 50 Approval
56 Speedy aircraft 13 “Uh-huh!” 51 Hockey player from Alberta
58 He published his first book of 18 Jewelry designer Peretti 52 Sanctify
game rules at 70 23 Hullabaloo 54 The new one is from
62 Night before 25 Ash carriers Argentina
63 What the 10 lords did 26 Hermione portrayer 55 Mr. ___ (The Wind in the
64 Command posts 27 Narcissistic Willows character)
65 What the Iron Giant was made 28 Country singer/actress 56 Tevye, e.g.
for McEntire 57 Longoria or Mendes
66 The protozoan Tetrahymena 29 Chicago to Atlanta dir. 59 Ruby ___
has seven 30 One who might do-si-do 60 The Grinch’s pup
67 What Febreze fights 31 Withdraw, as from office 61 Silicon Valley network
ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
Social commenter Fran Lebowitz notes,
“Children ask better questions than
adults. ‘[17-Across],’ ‘[39-Across],’ and
‘[62-Across]’ are far more likely to elicit
cheerful responses than ‘Where’s your
manuscript?’, ‘Why haven’t you called?’,
and ‘Who’s your lawyer?’” Mature
queriers might pass them off as known
quantities, and may miss the point. Fill
in the brackets above and you may feel
you’re asking the right questions again.

ACROSS
1 Flying weapon in Tron
5 Lighting rig
10 “Holy moley!”
14 Time periods
15 Supplicant’s activity
17 See introduction
19 Name in the news in 2001
20 Some cards, for short
21 Composer Camille Saint-___
22 Pub orders
24 Mideast religious man
26 ___-kiri
28 Rigoletto composer
30 Wedding statements
34 They’ll need a new home in DOWN 29 Fishing pole parts
2017 1 Early track, for a musician 31 In a mournful manner
36 Sushi fish 2 Some financial plans, 32 Vision: Prefix
38 Scottish word of surprise briefly 33 He had a “Winning!”
39 See introduction 3 What the Yiddish word meme
42 Corn-growing site? “daven” means 35 Inquire
43 New Yorker film critic 4 Its theme song was The 37 Neighbor of Leb. and Isr.
Pauline Who’s “Won’t Get Fooled 40 Black comedy starring
44 Specialty of chef Paul Again” Christian Slater and
Prudhomme 5 Not yet scheduled, on Winona Ryder
45 Hockey players Bobby and schedules 41 One who shouts
Colton 6 Change, as a manuscript 46 At rest, perhaps
47 Ganja smoker, perhaps 7 Not new 48 ___ feather (subject to
49 Scientology inventor 8 Port lands torture)
Hubbard 9 “Wait a ___!” 51 Appends
50 Right on a map 10 Amnesiac’s query 53 Miracle-___ (gardening
52 White person, in some 11 Hit the trails brand)
contexts 12 “Come ___!” 54 Has
54 Set of eight 13 Time periods 55 Frito-Lay offering
57 That girl 16 ___ Nostra (the Mafia) 56 It may be spun
59 Bullet cartridge 18 Character in four Star 58 Criminal Minds actor
62 See introduction Wars movies Morales
65 Frasier’s brother 23 People like Simon Cowell 60 To whom the Curiosity
66 Disney’s queen of Arendelle and Tina Fey Rover reports
67 Hurried 25 Item in an old-timey barn 61 Actress Cannon
68 Whispered comment 26 Genre of carpentry books 63 Yam-like vegetable
69 House Speaker Paul 27 Despise 64 ___Lo Green
TRAVEL WITHOUT FEAR
Despite the tumult in the Middle East,
CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg
urges us to exercise our basic right to
journey abroad. He writes, “It is a time
to never forget that travel remains the
most effective and powerful tool to
break down barriers and build bridges.”
From a space in the top row of this grid,
a path of horizontally and vertically
adjacent letters spells a series of nine
Mideastern nations, ending in a space
somewhere in the bottom row. We wish
you safe journeys!

ACROSS
1 “Ding Dong Merrily On High,” e.g.
6 See 46-Down
10 Car company bought by National
Electric Vehicle Sweden
14 Like ___ in the woods
15 Character who despises Othello
16 ___ mater
17 Like a sentence that just keeps
going and going and going and
going
18 Boring
19 Nano, e.g.
20 “His brother came out, with his 59 Alter, as text 24 Tears
hand grasping ___ heel; so he was 61 Bunches 25 Mortify
named Jacob” (Genesis) 62 Author Seton 26 Christian martyr with a “fire”
22 “Boy, ___ you” (Miley Cyrus lyric) 64 French toast topping that’s heeded by sailors
24 Krypton, for one 68 Fashion designer Wang 30 Prefix meaning “outside”
27 Mind-reading 69 Most dogs have 18 32 Spoil, as one’s parade
28 They banned Donald Sterling 70 Barely managing, with “out” 33 “Finished!”
29 Acing one gets you college credit 71 Dwarven weapons 34 Of limited presence
31 Captain America portrayer Evans 72 Concludes 37 Chilly acknowledgement
35 Glasses, slangily 73 Uses a Kindle 38 Common conjunction
36 Convent leader 39 It’s between kay and em
41 Heavy thing for a roadie DOWN 40 Pervy person
42 Xbox videogame series 1 Tesla, for one 44 Computerized brains, for short
43 1983 sci-fi/fantasy film 2 ___ Dhabi 46 With 6-Across, Jellystone Park
44 Opera adapted into an Elton John 3 Kurosawa adaptation of King Lear resident
musical 4 Instrument in the intro of Seal’s 49 Some rays
45 Boston’s “Liberty Tree,” e.g. “Kiss from a Rose” 51 Car wash machine
46 Turtle king of the pond on the far- 5 Nikon offerings 53 Pontificate
away island of Sala-ma-Sond 6 Cause an auction price to rise 54 School in Amherst and Boston,
47 “Are You ___ Out?” (Aladdin and 7 Bats use them to echolocate popularly
the King of Thieves song) 8 ___ Khan (Asian title) 56 Type of bean
48 Time-warping filmmaking 9 Dick Grayson’s original 57 Rodriguez of the diamond
technique, for short nickname 58 Sound from a tee
50 Some match results 10 Reacted to a tongue depressor 59 Stared at
52 In the past 11 Nestlé Purina brand 60 Van ___ (facial hair style)
54 Submachine gun brand 12 Cupid, by another name 63 Prefix for violent or partisan
55 Formerly called 13 Commanded 65 Coastal inlet
56 Dragon slain by the Norse hero 21 Have ___ in (share) 66 Sturm ___ Drang
Sigurd 23 “Now I know my ___...” 67 Some movie ratings
GIVE A MAN A GOAT
The Jewish concept of “tzedakah” is a
spiritual obligation to give gifts that
allow others to support themselves.
Here, we look at the living gifts you can
buy impoverished families at Heifer
International. For example, a goat costs
only $120. You can go online to
heifer.org right now and bring life to a
family. Solve this puzzle first, then feed
the world.

ACROSS
1 Eviscerate
4 Govt. bureau that conducts
raids
7 Alternative to com, org, gov, or
net
10 What you can give for $60 on
heifer.org
15 What you can give for $30
18 Sneakily clever
19 Turf
20 It may be cast or wrought
21 Queasy
24 Last mo.
26 Pursue romantically
28 What you can give for $120
29 Tennessee team, for short DOWN 34 Soothing plants
31 Money from Down Under, in 1 Pontiac model 36 Chocolatey drug
currency exchanges 2 Decorative mantelpiece object 37 Curlicue cut into a cello
33 Shrimp ___ diavolo 3 Golf ball holder 38 Cineplex ___
35 What you can give for $250 4 The same age 42 Birthright-selling son of Isaac
39 Club version, perhaps 5 Like some reunions 43 Belgrade resident
40 “___ bin ein Berliner” 6 Service charge 45 Pinheads and Patriots author
41 Lymph ___ 7 It may experience the bends? Bill
44 What you can give for $20 8 Went extinct 46 Support group?
47 Nowhere close 9 Article in Le Monde 50 Whiskas consumer
48 Grp. that kidnapped Patty 11 Indifferent comments 51 ___Kosh B’Gosh (clothing
Hearst 12 Prefix with functional brand)
49 Emulate an eagle 13 4 on a phone pad 52 Unsightly blemish
50 What you can give for $500 14 “Your majesty” 54 Operate a 1-Down
53 Made a simple signature 16 Promise 56 Some golf course events
55 Rock producer Brian 17 Dir. opposite WSW 59 Church bench
57 Ground-down tip 21 Folk singer Haglund, “flounder” of 61 Dined
58 “On the double!” a Seattle seafood restaurant 63 It and The WB merged into The
60 This American Life host Glass 22 Rob of Parks and Recreation CW
62 PC’s brain 23 What you can give for $150 65 That’s a moray?
64 What you can give for $360 25 The first c in cc 66 Not yet scheduled, for short
70 What you can give for $240 27 Chimp cousin 67 Number seen after Rocky or
71 Necessity for preparing lutefisk 30 Awkward, as a speaker Richard
72 He-man’s pride and joy 32 What you can give a bunch of 68 Understand
73 Cousin of Gomez Addams for $20 69 Concorde, e.g.
COMPOSE A POEM
”The best of poems is that which men of
intelligence are content with and the
people understand,” wrote Moshe Ben
Ezra. We’ll test your poetical skills here.
These entries make up a famous poem:
21-A 16-A 30-D 66-A 11-A 39-A
60-D 42-A 71-A 41-D 8-D

ACROSS
1 Falafel carrier
5 This second
8 Bawl
11 Like some donuts
13 Pirate chant
15 Shade
16 Trusts
18 Indefinite pronoun
19 Doctors’ org.
20 Actress Long
21 “Why I Love You ___” (Monica
single)
23 “Great news!”
24 Playwright who wrote Picnic
26 Large-antlered ruminant
27 Goes to a parlor
29 Moving part of an engine
32 His record of 75 goals in a year was
passed by Lionel Messi 71 Compared to 34 Prefix for skeleton or biology
35 2003 film at #2 on NASA’s Worst 72 U2 song 36 Water vessel
Sci-Fi Movies list, just behind 2012 73 Cool 37 Vena ___
38 Cancel 74 Ingrid in Casablanca 39 Author/actor Wheaton
39 Alongside 40 Summer beverage contents
42 Evian product DOWN 41 Gandalf appellation, post-
43 Vis-à-vis 1 Ingredient in a Thai salad resurrection
44 Berlin pronoun 2 Ending for slender or commercial 43 Query
45 They commit tax crimes 3 About midmorning 46 One of the Ninja Turtles
47 Vegetable related to the onion 4 Employ after the start of a recipe 48 Solution
49 Terrible newspaper 5 Manhattan sch. 51 Land southwest of the
50 Ex-Missouri Rep. Todd infamous for 6 “My bad!” Pyrenees
saying “The female body has ways 7 Word from an owl or excited person 52 “Apart from me there is ___”
to try to shut that whole thing 8 Coop denizens (Isaiah 45:5)
down” 9 Book in which Naomi meets Boaz 54 Cars in the E series, likely
53 Collection of millions of sites 10 “Leave It” band 56 Tool shelf item
55 Gunman Wyatt 11 Down Under salutation 57 Shul official
58 Comedian Newhart 12 American Graffiti star Paul 59 ‘90s heavyweight champ
60 Penned some poems (not this 14 “I shall pay for your purchase” Riddick
grid’s) 17 Droop 60 Beatles song with the lyric
63 “Doo ___ Diddy” 22 Throaty comment denoting worry “When the sun shines”
64 Big head 25 Earth Liberation Front action 61 Teletubbies catchphrase
65 ___ chi 28 Highest 62 Ms. Thomas of skating
66 Device similar to a hand truck 30 Picasso’s Woman in ___ Armchair 65 Decision for 59-Down
69 You might make a car out of it 31 Paltry 67 Mental reading
70 Has a good 8-Across 33 Drunk 68 Type of internet feed
LET MUSIC SOOTHE YOUR SOUL
In 1 Samuel 16:23, King Saul is troubled
by a harmful spirit. David takes up the
lyre and plays, refreshing Saul’s heart
and chasing the torment away.
Following in this age-old manner, music
can often be used to push away what
troubles us, but only if we pick the right
music. In this puzzle, a playlist of songs
is given to soothe your soul.

ACROSS
1 Grooves, as with a band
5 Inexpensive
10 They are often hot on the beach
14 Most Republican state in the 2012
election
15 High-up home
16 It’s symbolized as €
17 Heed a playlist entry from the
Eagles
19 ___ impasse
20 Baseball or basketball move
21 Heed a playlist entry from the
Beatles or Selena Gomez
23 Skull and crossbones, e.g.
26 Letter next to theta
27 Midge
28 Drunkard’s malady, for short 72 L. Frank Baum heroine 30 Evening display
31 Racist outburst 73 Character of sound 32 Heed a playlist entry from
33 Got (by) 74 Won without a loss Frankie Goes to Hollywood
35 “Listen here” 75 Tiger Beat reader 34 Thus
37 Paleo, e.g. 36 Contemporary of fellow
39 Slowly eat away DOWN Spaniard 28-Down
42 Heed a playlist entry from John 1 Pokes (out) 38 Last spice mentioned in a
Mellencamp, by way of the 2 The Empire Strikes Back vehicle Simon & Garfunkel title
Hombres 3 Earn 40 What a 57-Across is useful for
45 First meeting 4 Bundle 41 Website for buying
46 Units of 86,400 seconds 5 Jiji, in Kiki’s Delivery Service knickknacks
47 Things you excavate 6 “Tee-___” 43 Smash, as a car
48 Letter next to theta 7 Periods 44 “Whenever you can”
50 Cyclops or Wolverine, e.g. 8 It’s almost as long as an airplane 49 Modifies
52 Wily 9 Spineless cactus 51 15-Across, possibly
53 Larry King’s channel prior to RT 10 Droplet 53 Toothpaste brand
55 Computer pioneer Lovelace 11 Alfresco 54 “Awesomesauce,” once
57 Olympian’s electric weapon 12 Speaks like many a Texan 56 Words after “attorney”
59 Heed a playlist entry from Warren 13 “Kiddo” 58 It contains 11 main countries
G and Nate Dogg 18 Problems 60 ___ Reader
62 Either of two characters in a 2009 22 Rouse 61 Overhang
sci-fi reboot 24 In 2004, he played Senators in The 63 Semisolid
66 Word following “Middle” West Wing and The Aviator 64 Show up
67 Heed a playlist entry from Super 25 Trade organization 65 The “Hooded Order,” for
Furry Animals 28 The Hallucinogenic Toreador short
70 Zap painter 68 Sound from a puppy
71 PBS host Smiley 29 Not now 69 Suffix for mental or medal
WORK THROUGH YOUR GRIEF
”Life is full of misery, loneliness, and
suffering,” Woody Allen once said, “and
it’s all over much too soon.” Suffering
grief is a critical process in life, and
much scholarship is devoted to the
management of emotional pain. Dr.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross outlined five
stages of grief, which you may deal with
when you suffer a loss. With luck, this
puzzle won’t cause you any extra grief.

ACROSS
1 Epitome of suffering
4 Melee
9 Trial of Socrates depicter
14 Barnyard mom
15 High-up home
16 Venerate
17 First action you may take
regarding a loss
20 Pitching stat
21 X CCVs
22 Island music style
23 Second action you may take
regarding a loss
29 Pivot point
30 It’s charged
31 Unit of force DOWN 33 Religious broadcast from 1974
32 Trash site 1 President Bartlet, on The West to 1989, for short
33 ___ platter (Chinese appetizer Wing 34 ___ supra
tray) 2 Have as an obligation 35 Not near
35 Rapper ___ Rida 3 He’s often seen with Jerry 36 Fabrication
37 Third action you may take 4 Scottish youngster 38 Hindu matriarch
regarding a loss 5 Give a new price, perhaps 39 “___-Done!” (Larry the Cable
43 He messed up Foreman’s grill? 6 Hollywood agent Emanuel who Guy catchphrase)
44 Northern European isle inspired a similarly named 40 Pop of rock
45 Part of Aquafresh agent on Entourage 41 Last Julio-Claudian emperor
46 Ocean Spray prefix 7 Neighbor of Ill. 42 Firefly actress Summer
49 Poke (out) 8 Onsite information gatherer, in 46 Dover’s are white
50 Taj Mahal setting news slang 47 Stop a bomb, perhaps
51 Fourth action you may take 9 Love: Prefix 48 Made amends
regarding a loss 10 Actor Chaney 49 Pre-transformation character
56 ___ Jima 11 Like a teen, stereotypically 50 PDQ
57 Query 12 Reduced, as by tailor 52 Seahawk’s grasper
58 ___ culpa 13 Like Baroque décor 53 Alternative to cable
59 Fifth action you may take 18 Some votes 54 Variety show figure
regarding a loss 19 Agcy. that monitors spending 55 Psychics
66 Middle of Vito’s three sons 23 Yaps it up 60 Mathematics pioneer Lovelace
67 TV host Matt 24 Door sign 61 Roadside aid org.
68 Drilled stuff 25 Turner of records 62 “For reasons,” briefly
69 Town Car, e.g. 26 TV host Kelly 63 He’s often seen with Jerry
70 Takes it easy 27 Instruction to the next act 64 Fury
71 See 65-Down 28 Asian bowl 65 With 71-Across, cooking style
PREPARE BEFORE TEMPTATION
”It is too late to prepare when
temptation is actually at hand,” Rabbi
Yitzchak Meir of Ger wrote. The heat of
the moment is hard to cool down, so
putting some effort into what needs to
be done beforehand is always smart.
Here are four things you might do
early—before it’s too late.

ACROSS
1 Convenience stores
6 Pottery material
10 Citizen of a Pre-Columbian
empire
14 Most desirable party guests
15 Zilch, at Wimbledon
16 Secure a boat
17 Act prudently before taking
that tropical vacation
20 RBI, for one
21 See 23-Across
22 Nickname of restaurateur Dave
Thomas’s daughter Melinda
Lou
23 With 21-Across, ab-crunching
exercises
25 Orchard fruit
27 Act prudently before buying 67 Missile Command game maker 28 City where the TV dinner,
that dream house 68 Simplicity Raisin Bran, and the Reuben
35 He may call you out 69 Hardly a shrinking violet were invented
36 Harrumphs 70 Used a keyboard 29 Choose to participate
37 Blue jeans pioneer Strauss 30 Word with high or holy
38 Give some stars on Yelp DOWN 31 More loyal
40 Enterprise captain Jean-___ 1 Rand McNally offerings 32 Plains dwelling
Picard 2 Touched down 33 Each
41 X-ray ___ (product advertised in 3 Costa ___ 34 Boxcars
the back of a comic book) 4 Finger-wagging comment 39 Armchair neighbor, perhaps
42 Jay Leno feature 5 Three-time World Series of 43 ___-lacto vegetarian
43 Owner of the cow that Poker Main Event champ 44 Animal with four legs but no
supposedly started the Great Ungar knees
Chicago Fire 6 Applaud 45 Japanese currency
46 Before, poetically 7 Cuts (off) 48 “I didn’t see you there!”
47 Act prudently before beginning 8 The Night of the Iguana 49 Like dreadlocks or
that pub crawl actress Gardner conundrums
50 The Avengers superhero who 9 “That’s right” 52 Instrument heard in Sonny
hails from Asgard 10 Risks and Cher’s “I Got You Babe”
51 Traveler’s stopover 11 Time to put your hands up? 53 Stage between larva and imago
52 Host of the highest-rated talk 12 Extension ___ 54 Seeded loaves
show in television history 13 Pretentious 55 Drummer Collins
55 Egg-frying need 18 Donned 56 Got all the questions correct on
57 They give a hoot 19 Emulated Michael Phelps 58 Cylindrical sandwich
61 Act prudently before going on 24 Uncertainties 59 Legendry
that dream date 25 Crookshanks, to Hermione 60 Came home horizontally
65 German carmaker owned by Granger 62 Stage a heist of
General Motors 26 Places to see an MD ASAP 63 Number of senators per state
66 Boo-boo 27 Stagger 64 Singer ___ King Cole
REFUSE ON PRINCIPLE
”It is always easier to fight for one’s
principles than to live up to them,”
psychotherapist Alfred Adler wrote, It’s
fairly easy to do something you want to
do that matches your beliefs, but giving
up something you want because your
beliefs forbid it is another matter
entirely. Here are five examples of some
impressively principled refusals.

ACROSS
1 Its motto is “Because freedom
can’t protect itself”
5 Owned
8 Thing on the radar
12 Trumpet
14 Miami county
15 Hand, in Jalisco
16 He gave up the British throne so
he could marry Wallis Simpson
18 The Andy Griffith Show character
19 He refused an Oscar because he
thought the Academy was corrupt
21 Invisible
24 Birdhouse substance
25 Medieval interjection
26 Manhattan sch.
27 Apply gently 67 “Ciao!” 23 What a YouTube celebrity
29 Prime time soap that had a 21-year 68 Classic puzzle game wants more of
hiatus between seasons 69 Sheep’s mom 28 ___ II Men
31 Side of a ledger 70 Obsess about a slight 30 Laze around
33 Conservative pol Trent 32 Actress Reid
36 Illegal moves DOWN 34 Boxing result
37 He stepped away from a World 1 Actor Vigoda 35 Singer Amos
Series start because it was on 2 Whitefish 38 All-Star shortstop Garciaparra
Yom Kippur 3 “I am the ___!” (Judge Dredd) 39 No longer together
40 Time-saving computer command 4 Employment 40 Paving material made from tar
42 Longtime Seahawks QB Jim 5 Family of Reagan’s first and broken stones
43 Apple named for a Japanese Secretary of State 41 Skill
mountain 6 How Henri says 67-Across 44 Canner’s creation
46 Star Wars director J.J. 7 Got a plane ready at McMurdo 45 Gemstone ending
48 Dictator Amin Station, probably 47 Compromise
50 Type of rodent 8 College QB, perhaps 49 Some furniture stores
51 DX/V 9 Opulent position 53 “Architecture is the art ___ to
52 Super-long time 10 Starting waste space” (Philip Johnson)
55 “Sure, that’s fine” 11 Passé term for a female author 54 Golfer Cheyenne Woods, to
57 He declined a knighthood 13 Stuck like a cat, perhaps Tiger
because he disliked snobbery 14 Device that lets you view 56 Program components
60 Regimen shows airing at the same time 58 State of Paris
61 They refused to play segregated 17 Disneyland duck 59 Raptors’ org.
stadiums in the South 20 Workers 62 Permit
65 Razor brand 21 German connector 63 Facial feature
66 “Livin’ La Vida ___” 22 Bill the Science Guy 64 Used 63-Downs
TREAT YOUR WATER WISELY
”Just as the world cannot exist without
water, so it cannot be without
wisdom,” wrote Rabbi David Kimhi in
the 1200s. He could not have imagined
what some of our waterways look like
eight centuries later. Through our lack
of wisdom, we’ve ruined many of our
major waterways. Let’s find a way to set
things right, before we run out.

ACROSS
1 Egyptian beetle amulet
7 Drone
10 Lower body ailment
14 Enchilada accompaniment
15 LA school
16 Flatten
17 Program for loved ones of drinkers
18 Waterway so polluted that Dr.
Seuss made it a rhyme of “dreary,”
“weary,” and “smeary”
20 River whose biodiversity was
devastated by the Three Gorges
Dam
22 Political liaison
23 Some Blu-Ray players
24 Comedy partner of Peele
27 Acgy. created 69 days after the 60 It merged with Coors 29 Slangy adjectival phrase for the
9/11 attacks 61 Construction toy brand largest U.S. currency note
28 Words heard by Brutus 62 Be rude to, slangily 30 Dating
30 Program that attacks computers 63 $1, for many CEOs 31 Surname of the “Stayin’ Alive”
31 With 39-Across, colossal gyre of brothers
debris between Asia and the DOWN 32 Drab female courted by a
Americas 1 Inhabit, perhaps temporarily male’s colorful fanning of
35 Very old 2 French town closest to England feathers
38 Steamy 1992 Madonna song/album 3 Starlet Bynes 33 1960s comedian Johnson
39 See 31-Across 4 Where bows get drawn 34 Conan O’Brien, to his
41 File extension for digital books 5 Tons “teammates”
42 Huxtable or Kojak of TV 6 “You say you wanna get in my 35 Matures
43 Progressive spokeswoman ___?” (“Baby Got Back”) 36 Vintner’s valley
46 Raphael Ravenscroft’s featured 7 Explode with rage, a la Dr. Banner 37 Centerpoint
instrument in the song “Baker 8 Speedster Bolt 40 WWII vessels for a dozen or
Street” 9 Anchorman 2 director Adam more crewmen each
47 ___ de boeuf (French stew) 10 Hall of Fame pitcher Maddux 43 It’s part of a calf’s anatomy
50 Designer favored by North Korean 11 One found in a lifeboat 44 Less constraining
first lady Ri Sol Ju 12 Israeli submachine gun 45 Model of the solar system
51 Heavily polluted waterway after 13 Golf shop purchase 47 Word from Homer
far more than tea was dumped in 19 Some printing measures 48 Syrian president Bashar Al-___
it 21 It can be left to others 49 Wombs
54 One of the world’s most 24 Annan of the U.N. 50 Dryly witty
radioactive waterways due to 25 Holder of the Attorney General’s 51 Vitamin found in meat
contamination from the Sellafield office 52 Overactors
Nuclear Plant 26 Its HQ is in Geneva 53 “Habanera,” for one
57 Spur to action 28 “And ___ man hath power to say 54 Kind
58 Ally of Thor in The Dark World ‘Behold!’” (A Midsummer Night’s 55 Harry’s confidant
59 Oft-insured items Dream) 56 Kyle’s brother on South Park
DIVE INTO A SEA OF THOUGHT
”Dive into a sea of thought,” wrote
scholar Moses ibn Ezra, “and find there
pearls beyond price.” The dive is the
easy part, as anyone can let the current
take them under. The hard part is to
retain clarity when swimming in the
ocean of creativity. We’ve hidden some
sparks of knowledge for you to find
amid an array of words.

ACROSS
1 Arthurian quest item
6 Sorority letter
9 Hogwarts librarian ___ Pince
13 Like geometry in which parallel
lines never intersect
15 Pattern with a wavy
appearance
17 2014 Ice Cube cop comedy
18 Cars like the Quattro
19 Business mag
20 Recycling receptacle
21 Failure to attend to detail
23 Pugilistic legend
24 In a ___ (real soon now)
25 Romantic rendezvous
26 Goalie in Buffalo, perhaps
29 Saturday Night Fever sound 65 Planes like the Alpha Golf 28 From the French, epitomes of
31 Kenny G instrument 66 Result for 23-Across the highest standards
32 Don’t Trust ___ in Apartment 23 67 Residents of Mauritius, pre-1662 29 Epitome of the lowest
(2012 sitcom) standards
33 Flower part DOWN 30 Weird
34 Redline 1 Spice Girl Halliwell 33 The Second Family
36 Don’t let it get to you? 2 Disaster 35 “Wicked Game” singer Chris
41 Not new 3 Band who brought in Axl 37 Below-breath laugh
42 Drone, for example Rose as lead singer in 2016 38 An unspecified amount
43 Classical solo 4 ___ de la Cité (Parisian site) 39 52-Down minus zwei
44 “Bali ___” (South Pacific tune) 5 On the hook 40 “Every Kiss Begins with ___”
46 Once Upon a Time kid whose moms 6 Wage slave (jewelry slogan)
are a savior and an evil queen 7 Kylo’s dad 44 ___-podge
48 MLB slugger Ramirez or NFL 8 “No hablo ___” 45 Sigourney Weaver classic
center Ramirez 9 Venue for a really big show 47 Numbskull
49 Name that’s added to “- 10 Like a dime 48 Say “2+2=5,” for example
mobile” 11 From the area between Libya 50 Adorable critter in the Ice Age
51 Game involving pegs and Afghanistan films
52 Hagar the Horrible cartoonist 12 Legendary label last owned 52 39-Down plus zwei
Browne by RCA 54 Without improvement
53 Adjective for miniature cars 14 Half of MCIV 55 The name of The Name of the
55 ___ longa, vita brevis 16 County northeast of London Rose’s narrator
56 Cry of surprise 22 Grave mark? 56 Cry of surprise
59 Video game franchise ___ of 23 Home of the Meat Mountain 57 Falsetto-voiced monster
War 24 Pistol, perhaps 58 Musician Alicia, or what she
60 Like some lenses 26 Engine additive brand plays
63 Chou ___ (Chinese leader) 27 Where an athlete that wants 61 What’s in 19-Across, or a
64 ___ Schumer (Comedy Central to become a 26-Across might homophone of 19-Across
series) play 62 Keanu Reeves role
MAKE TIME FOR EVERYTHING
In the book of Ecclesiastes, King
Solomon ascribes a time to every pair of
purposes under heaven. You may not
get around to all of them on every day,
but you’ll hit most of them in a lifetime.
Here is the full list from the New
International Version, with one of each
pair that you’ll need to fill in.

a time to 14-Across and a time to die,

a time to 30-Down and a time to
uproot,
a time to kill and a time to 9-Down,
a time to 18-Across and a time to build,
a time to 73-Across and a time to
laugh,
a time to 4-Down and a time to dance,
a time to 41-Across and a time to
gather them,
a time to 28-Down and a time to
refrain,
a time to 66-Across and a time to give
up,
a time to 56-Across and a time to
throw away,
a time to tear and a time to 60-Down,
a time to 63-Across and a time to
speak, 45 “Aw shucks!” 8 Tank’s traction
a time to love and a time to 10-Across, 46 Nickname for Orlando used by 10 Secreted
a time for war and a time for 57-Down. a boy band, despite none of its 11 Greek market
members being from there 12 Item strongly recommended by
ACROSS 48 ER needs The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
1 Los ___ (Manhattan Project 50 Martial arts move Galaxy
site) 52 Seize 13 Bert’s flatmate
7 Highest degree 53 Pontificate 19 Not imaginary
15 Motherlode contents 57 ___ colada 21 More spooky
16 Brain-gatherer in Young 58 Marks in lieu of signatures 24 Word after handy or web
Frankenstein 59 ___ Celebrity...Get Me Out of 25 Some known for leading the
17 Chant heard repeatedly at the Here! simple life
Salt Lake Olympics 61 Bumpkin 26 Swiftly
20 Clue weapon 70 Sex cell 32 Cleverness
22 Draft option 71 Greenwich Village sch. 33 Long-haired cousin on The
23 King, in Portuguese 72 Wrap Addams Family
24 James of Rollerball 74 Brand of phone book 35 San Rafael’s county
27 ___ off (riled) 75 Intercede 37 Biblical queen
29 On ___ Horse (Piers Anthony 39 Actress Téa who stars on
novel about an incarnation of DOWN Madam Secretary
Death) 1 Aladdin’s monkey 40 Dam in Egypt
31 Item for a guitarist 2 ___ Misérables 42 RB scores
32 Tequila inclusion 3 Attorney org. 43 Alley ___
33 Poorly 5 Approximately 47 The Heat play in it
34 The Heat play in it 6 Awake in a hurry 49 Bride’s clothing choice
36 “That would not surprise me!” 7 Wayne’s World word used 51 Creative works
38 In the manner of alone or between “We’re” and 53 U-shaped waterway
44 That ship’s “worthy” 54 Irritant
STRIVE FOR CLARITY
The Sanhedrin courts had the rule, “If it
be as clear to you as the light of morn,
say it! If it be not, say it not!” But clarity
is hard to obtain. There’s a type of word
called a Janus word, which means both
a thing and the opposite of that thing.
When you say something’s “fast,” is it
moving quickly, or not at all? When
you’re “dusting,” are you adding a fine
powder or removing it? The italicized
clues will lead to an understandable lack
of certainty.

ACROSS
1 Bible subject
4 Groom’s garb
7 Chose
12 Work to cause disease, or work to
ward off disease
15 Less frequent
16 Fended off the elements, or
damaged as from the elements
17 Separates, or fastens together
18 Woodsy is one
19 Screw up
20 Still
21 Toolbox item
23 3:10 to ___ 63 Attention to detail, or lack of 22 Commit sexual harassment, maybe
25 Book that inspired Clueless attention to detail 24 Sierra ___
28 Golf bag contents 66 Talks like 18-Acrosses 26 Heavenly body on a Tarot card
30 Approval, or disapproval 67 Exactly, or not exactly exactly 27 Hill residents
32 Crafters’ site 68 Girl Scout’s quality 29 Break the Eighth Commandment
35 Genetic building block 69 Letters after a periodontist’s name 31 Checked out illicitly
36 Word whose middle letter is often 70 Unified 33 Hit with a bat, or miss with a bat
replaced by an apostrophe 34 Type of question
37 Issue forth, or hide away DOWN 37 ___ out (understand)
40 Goes away from a job, or comes 1 Hope Solo’s role on the USA 38 Fencing item
back to a job Women’s National Team 39 What you get for a good deed, or
42 News org. 2 Baseball playoffs mo. what you get for a bad deed
43 ___ Poetica 3 “I mean, c’mon!” 41 Aware of
44 Genesis locale 4 Stick around 46 Seek help from
45 Making a place more active, or 5 Where the endometrium is 47 Pregnant
making a place less active 6 Signed simply 49 Group of geese
48 Users of a certain type of park 7 Symbolic animal of the Pacific 50 Brand of chainsaw
51 NFL player Junior, whose suicide Northwest 53 Putin’s opposites of 58-Across
triggered a national debate about 8 Shipping platform 55 Like some stout beers
concussions 9 Adding to a tree, or subtracting 57 Bygone national acronym
52 Nu metal band whose third letter from a tree 59 Poetical preposition
is often displayed in reverse 10 Wild ___ (classic alert sound on 61 Sound with a finger placed before
54 Its charter’s Article 5 has been early Macs) one’s lips
invoked just once, on 9/12/01 11 No and Pepper, e.g. 62 Kathleen Dee-Anne Stark,
56 Choice on a two-answer question 12 “Congratulations to me!” familiarly
58 Favorable vote 13 Inexperienced in 63 Decrepit
60 Star-making Angelina Jolie role 14 Director Spike or director Ang 64 Abbr. on box offices
61 Adds a covering, or subtracts a 20 Preserved for one’s use, or removed 65 The Vampire Diaries star
covering from one’s presence Somerhalder
CLEAN UP YOUR DOORSTEP
”If everyone cleaned his own
doorsteps,” Hebrew fabulist Yehoshua
Steinberg writes, “the whole town
would be clean.” Sometimes, if you deal
with what appear to be minor problems
in your neighborhood, the major ones
will start to fade away. Here are five
ways to take back your neighborhood.

ACROSS
1 Out of alignment
5 Respectful address
9 Electric guitar hookup
12 Orson Welles masterpiece
Citizen ___
13 Mideast country locked in an
uprising since 2011
14 Greek letter used as the symbol
for torque
15 Way to clean up your
neighborhood
18 Miner’s prize
19 “The Star-Spangled Banner”
preposition
20 Plays a toy trumpet
21 Way to clean up your
neighborhood
26 Entertain guests DOWN 31 Humpty Dumpty, for one
27 Self-centered 1 Yojimbo director Kurosawa 32 I might like the cut of yours
28 Master thief played by both 2 Administers a Brazilian 33 Feasted
Sinatra and Clooney 3 They work in ORs 34 Geek icon Wheaton
31 Wriggly swimmer 4 So far 36 First three community cards
32 Site of a mandibular fracture 5 Dr. Evil portrayer Mike of a Texas hold ‘em hand
35 Way to clean up your 6 Gallery contents 37 Military installation
neighborhood 7 Feel bad 38 Strike with a whip
40 2012 Olympics network 8 Rum, Curaçao, and lime juice 39 Seattle culinary specialty
41 Journal 9 One of the Three 43 Contribution to a
42 Print falsehoods about Musketeers brainstorming session
43 Dr. Frankenstein’s lab assistant 10 Today co-host Lauer 44 Be way off base?
45 WBA results 11 ___ in Boots 45 Play monotonously, as a
47 Way to clean up your 13 “Now you ___... now you guitar
neighborhood don’t” 46 Potter’s oven
52 Flummoxed 15 Dandy 47 Egyptian dam locale
54 It might begin with www 16 Wallaby cousins, for short 48 How a French dip is served
55 Shade 17 Bridal purchase 49 Largest animal on earth
56 Way to clean up your 22 Iranian leader exiled in 1979 50 What psychics read
neighborhood 23 Forbidden act 51 “You wanted something?”
61 ___ whim 24 In history 52 The whole enchilada
62 Drug smuggler’s commodity 25 In ___ land (daydreaming) 53 Word with dial or muscle
63 “La ___ Bonita” 28 Possess 57 Dr. Zaius, for one
64 Path to enlightenment 29 It’s got a meter and an 58 Yang’s counterpart
65 Part of a magnifying glass odometer 59 Tyke
66 Runs out of juice 30 Upper left key on a MacBook 60 Vegas-set police procedural
CHANGE YOUR LUCK
”Sometimes work can change your
luck,” wrote poet Hayim Nahman Bialik.
If you think you’re a lucky person, good
on you. But if you think you’re an
unlucky person, consider the advice of
psychologist Richard Wiseman, who
defined the four habits of people who
consider themselves lucky. If you follow
these four steps, your luck may change
for the better.

ACROSS
1 Variety of tea
6 Type of machine for snorers, for
short
10 Cali valley
14 Dreaded dental device
15 See 42-Across
16 Solzhenitsyn hero Denisovich
17 How to make your own luck
20 Late Night host Meyers
21 Role for Harrison
22 Beatty film about communism
23 Alias, in an APB
25 401, Roman-style
26 How to make your own luck
35 Superlative suffix
36 Belgian detective DOWN 30 Pod creatures
37 Approximately 1 You can “print” them in Word 31 Dinosaur who hangs out with
38 Garlic sauce 2 U.S. lake plumbers
40 Summertime hookups, briefly 3 Verbal ___ (Kevin Spacey role) 32 Freshwater diver
41 Outdo 4 Passé 33 The ___ Suspects (3-Down’s
42 With 15-Across, Radiohead song 5 “Mr. Blue Sky” band film)
named for a California city 6 ___ Crunch 34 ___-turvy
43 Brando, Astaire, or Nolte, by birth 7 Work aimlessly 39 Image in many a Texan product
45 ___-relief 8 “It’s worth ___!” 41 “I’ve got that covered”
46 How to make your own luck 9 It rhymes with 25-Down 43 Select
49 Tolkien creature 10 Club similar to a pitching wedge 44 Missile Command system
50 From ___ Z 11 Excited 47 Stereo feature
51 Not bad 12 New England team, to fans 48 Type of candle
53 Burn ever so slightly 13 Kennedy Center’s ___ Given Child 51 Of that type
56 Not that initiative 52 City once called Kristiania
60 How to make your own luck 18 Yamaha purchase 53 Stuff
63 School with a noted film program 19 Language similar to Hindi 54 Sulu’s place on the bridge
64 Death goddess of Indian myth 24 Civil War cap style 55 Silk Road locale
65 Reproductive organ 25 It rhymes with 62-Down 57 Get better
66 Mjolnir wielder 26 Sprang 58 Concerning, legally
67 Actress Watson who played 27 Great NBA player/not-so-great 59 “Renegade” band
Hermione Granger NBA exec Thomas 60 Project (out)
68 Type of network once employed 28 Maker of Blakberi vodka 61 ___ out (manage)
by Western Union 29 Love note from Giuseppe 62 It rhymes with 9-Down
BREATHE
The Jerusalem Talmud notes, “As long
as a man breathes he should not lose
hope.” We get enmeshed in our daily
hustle and bustle, but rarely take time
to just breathe in and appreciate the
wonder of things. In this puzzle, you’ll
take ten short breaths. When you’re
done, you can finally exhale.

ACROSS
1 Its motto: “Fidelity, Bravery,
Integrity”
4 Buenos ___
7 One who’s busy on Apr. 15
10 “A Mighty Fortress ___ God”
12 Vault
14 Thug employed by Saruman
15 Lottery winner, perhaps
18 Greek letters
19 Bear, to Kate Winslet
20 Oldest of its island chain
21 Like some plane-launched
missiles
23 Poetic contraction
25 Hawks’ division rival
28 “___ Fi”
30 Self-image
32 National stock average, for short DOWN 29 Christmas and New Year’s,
33 Take too far 1 Prison in a Johnny Cash e.g.
35 Kenyan metropolis song 31 What a netminder does not
37 “___ bleu!” 2 Nonetheless want to give up
40 “Well now!” 3 Part of the eye 34 Whitewater need
41 Precious brick 4 Virgin, e.g. 35 Transport of 1492
42 Track races 5 Wriggly sort 36 His ___ (Michael Jordan)
43 Ford model that gave its name to 6 Virologist Jonas 37 Display
an Andrew Dice Clay “comedy” 7 Robert E. Howard’s 38 Dynamic opening?
45 Bobby of hockey barbarian 39 Garage’s works
46 Consumed 8 What explorer Meriwether 44 Series based on a DC
47 They may itch Lewis called a “barking Comics archer
51 Market values squirrel” 46 Dancing legend
54 Way to catch a program later 9 Part of a royal flush 48 The Middle star Patricia
56 Religious group 10 Affects negatively 49 Parisian baked goods
57 Online announcement site 11 Ramada offering 50 Store in a secret location
59 Debtor letters 13 Instrument for 16-Down 52 Best Buy purchase
61 In the manner of 16 Actor/musician Dudley 53 What a pitcher does not
62 1970s BBC series revived in 17 European word of approval want to give up
2010 22 Base station for Apple 55 Jimi Hendrix’s first
65 African nation from 1971-97 computers instrument
66 British rank 24 Like the object of Charlie 58 Jacob’s brother
67 Newcomer to college, familiarly Brown’s affection 60 Discriminatory
68 Ending for harp or humor 26 Prefix denoting mechanical 62 Israeli gun
69 ___.gov construction 63 AMA members
70 Have as a broadcast site 27 M*A*S*H star Loretta 64 Broadway acronym
AVOID ISOLATION
”There’s a great deal of scientific
evidence that social connectedness is a
very strong protector of emotional well-
being,” says wellness expert Andrew
Weil. “There’s no question that social
isolation has greatly increased in our
culture in, say, the past 50 years.” This
trend is reflected in our popular culture,
especially on our television sets. Break
out and join your fellow humans.

ACROSS
1 With 14-Down, Scotch cocktail
named for a carpentry hazard
6 Some appliances, briefly
9 Show about isolation after a plane
crash
13 Person like an Osmond
15 Egyptian who toured America
16 Songwriter Paul
17 Recitation of the rosary, e.g.
18 With 4-Down, show about
isolation in a prison
20 Once ___ a Time
21 Character on 18-Across/4-Down
23 11-Down adornment, slangily
24 Upscale Italian tire brand
26 Challenge 71 Prepare, as a pistol 30 “You never will!” response
28 Life ___ Know It (Josh Duhamel 72 Hit like a ghost in Ghostbusters 32 Time period
film) 73 See 66-Down 33 Clangor
29 Primary prime 74 Poli ___ 34 Television’s Clampett
31 “B.J. ___” (Stonewall Jackson hit) 75 Boxes for practice 36 Mature
35 Constricting one 38 With 57-Across, show about
37 Globe DOWN isolation in a house
39 Rust Belt lake 1 Make larger and larger, as a bill 40 Moving picture on the internet
40 Show about isolation after a boat 2 Show about isolation in a colony 41 WWII nickname
crash 3 Takes one’s time enjoying 42 Permit
45 Swedish chain 4 See 18-Across 43 Advancing the cause of chaos
46 Treebeard, for one 5 ___ Can Cook (Chinese food show) 44 Of moderate quality
47 Indian locale 6 It may be split 49 Munich mister
48 Doggie’s favorite game 7 Museum employees 51 Mariner’s stat
50 Broadcast 8 Attest 53 Doctors’ lobby
52 The Concorde, et al. 9 Delay 54 Where files are kept
55 Australian model Miranda 10 “The ___ Love” (REM song) 56 Brand of Italian ice
57 See 38-Down 11 What 23-Across is put on 58 Confederates, for short
60 Regret 12 Chore 59 Clarinetists’ supply
63 Lionel of pop 14 See 1-Across 60 Paul of the Anchorman films
65 Really dry 19 Where eggs hatch 61 Computer command
66 With 73-Across, show about 22 It may be picked 62 Dutch cheese
isolation in a small town 25 5th century pope 64 Prefix meaning “half”
68 Follow instructions 27 Show about isolation on a Navy 67 Peeper
70 June commemoration destroyer 69 Golfer from South Africa
LOOK AT THE JEWELS YOU CARRY
The Chofetz Chaim, a turn-of-the-last-
century rabbi, told a parable of a land
where the streets were littered with
jewels. They were so common that they
became worthless—except to the
residents of a land where jewels are
scarce. So, the rabbi continued, “When
the going seems rough, look at the
jewels you’re carrying.” Six times in this
puzzle, they always shine bright.

ACROSS
1 Moonshine containers
5 Recessed place, with one letter
changed from 9-Across
9 Recessed place, with one letter
changed from 5-Across
13 Relative of the Slurpee
14 Lyft competitor
15 Does Adam’s task re: animals
16 Ikebana
19 ___-sighted
20 Car builder Ransom with a
“mobile”
21 It may be major, minor, or bush
22 Twin sign
24 Wolfed down
26 They help the prof 67 Take to dinner, say 28 Director Kazan
27 Podcasting need 68 TV horse 29 Slow state
30 “Thunderstruck” band 69 What you pay for at a movie 31 Frog mascot of Honey Smacks
32 Too 70 Central to cereal
33 Black dust 71 Inquires 34 Rowboat item
35 “Should ___ my plan from 36 Campaign consultants, e.g.
Abraham?” (Genesis 18:17) DOWN 37 Serious
39 Duran Duran song 1 Brief moment, briefly 38 Monday Night Football’s
40 Ploy 2 School with the most applications channel
42 Prefix for 44-Down or 15-Across 3 Bill of Rights author and namesake 40 ___ City (Las Vegas)
43 Japanese writing system of a Virginia university 41 Like many paperback
45 “No ___!” (“Easy-peasy!”) 4 Stitch dictionaries
46 Elderly person’s org. 5 Most like an afro 44 Decision-making ability
47 Edit menu command 6 “I’ve got ___ feeling about this” 46 Even only one
49 What Syracuse called its players 7 Word after “vice” 48 Show off, as a game
before embracing gender 8 Botch it 50 Actor Alan
neutrality 9 Enclosed wrestling showdown 51 Chopin creation
51 Airport abbr. 10 Last letter 52 Rocky actress Shire
53 Amount of work 11 What Magellan mapped 54 Twinkle
55 “Elijah,” in Russian 12 Last part of 15-Down, in Spanish 56 Some hit B’way shows
56 Parent of a child star 15 Opposite of SSW 57 Bureau that preceded the CIA
58 Actor Alan 17 Seemingly forever 59 Opposed to
60 Renders unconscious, for short 18 Mr. Guinness 61 Really small file size or race
63 Patrick Warburton sitcom (2007– 23 Words of joining length
2013) 25 Its type is traumatic, amateur, 62 Herpes, et al.
66 ___ Ravens (Norse-themed board professional, cosmetic, or medical 64 Ingredient-regulating org.
game) 27 Word heard as herald angels sing 65 Actress Arterton
SETTLE YOUR DISPUTES
”History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives,” said
statesman Abba Eban, reflecting a deep
divide about how to handle territories
disputed by neighboring countries. It is
hard enough for a person to believe
something belongs to him and not get
it, let alone for a country to do so. But
settle these disputes we must. Here, ten
nations face off over the boundaries of
their reach.

ACROSS
1 Loud noise
5 ___ mater
9 Onetime method for
determining the top NCAA
football team
12 Oldsmobile model
14 Destitute
15 Cry in Barcelona
16 Countries disputing possession
of the Savage Islands
18 Swarm
19 Microbrew option
20 Sam of Jurassic Park
22 Countries disputing possession 60 ___ Reader (magazine with the 23 Legendary pitcher Johnson
of Golan Heights tag line “Cure Ignorance”) 24 Modern Family network
24 Broadcast 61 Clairvoyants 25 Lyricist Gershwin
26 “___ Love Her” (song by the 62 The other half of auburn 29 Animate, as a tail
Beatles) 63 Ferry or canoe 31 Wheat ___
27 Places 64 Prom accessory? 32 Japanese currency
28 Half of auburn 34 Its name means “bitter”
30 Pig’s home DOWN 35 Like a drone
33 Countries disputing possession 1 Big party 36 Adriatic, e.g.
of the Strait of Juan de Fuca 2 One of its varieties is Come & 37 Parabola
38 Place where you might climb a Get It! 40 Performers like Ryan Lewis
rope 3 Close 41 Performer like Macklemore
39 It precedes tube or ear 4 Hashmarked surface 42 Codeine, for one
40 Fall 5 ___ Way 43 Unmoving, in a way
44 “Janie’s Got ___” (Aerosmith 6 Made a cursive lowercase “L” 45 Only South American nation
song) 7 Goody-two-shoes whose official language is
47 Apple product 8 Studio output English
48 Countries disputing possession 9 Those above par 46 Precursor to web forums
of the South Kuril Islands 10 Homeland’s Danes 49 What there is in “team”
51 Vice President Agnew 11 What a photographer might 50 Her name includes the
52 It contains an iris say to a timid model hieroglyph for “throne”
53 Mocking, as a comment 13 What the answer to 17-Down 54 Thought
57 Countries disputing possession means 55 Gossip
of Kashmir 17 Young’___ 56 Simplicity
59 Post-printemps time 21 Singing syllables 58 You can eat it or ride in it
SEEK THE FARAWAY CLOSE TO HOME
”There are men who travel far to look
for something that they can find in their
own homes,” say the Proverbs of
Joshua. In these difficult times, some of
us choose not to travel abroad. But we
don’t have to give up on seeing the
wonders of the world! So much is right
here in America.

ACROSS
1 “Back in Black” band
5 Variety
8 Arboretum sight
12 With 20-Down, take no chances
13 Low card in a royal flush
14 Overseas landmark re-created
in Las Vegas, NV
16 “Lump” band, to its fans
17 Overseas landmark re-created
in Maryhill, WA
19 With 63-Across, overseas
landmark re-created in Niles, IL
21 “Ich bin ___ Berliner”
22 Overly
23 Away from the exterior
27 Cuts
29 What a drawbridge may bridge
30 Children’s diamond settings DOWN 33 Abbr. at the end of a
37 “Rehab” singer Winehouse 1 Fruit that’s incomparable to company’s name
38 Overseas landmark re-created oranges? 34 Giant Hall-of-Famer Mel
in Paris, TN 2 Bring up to speed 35 Craggy pinnacle
40 Lion’s coat 3 Aquafina competitor 36 Dora the Explorer fox whose
42 Like the Nissan Leaf 4 Shade of blue used in printing name describes his thieving
43 The Odyssey, for one 5 “___ Secret” (Jefferson behavior
45 Jabs a finger into Airplane song) 38 CHiPs actor Estrada
49 Goalie Khabibulin or composer 6 Fired 39 Prefix with friendly
Rimsky-Korsakov 7 Sheepshank or monkey’s fist, 40 Bog
53 Country that’s home to Burj e.g. 41 Newswire inits.
Khalifa, the world’s tallest bldg. 8 Aries, astrologically 44 Lassie’s breed
55 Abbr. at the end of a 9 ___ Tin Tin 46 One who jokes around
company’s name 10 Official lang. of Jamaica 47 Item with a horsepower rating
56 Overseas landmark re-created 11 Filename extension for a 48 Odors
in Lake Havasu City, AZ computer program 50 Peter’s wife on Family Guy
59 Overseas landmark re-created 14 Stitched 51 ___ Karenina
in Washington, D.C., among 15 “That was a close one!” 52 Publisher of the 30 Days of
many other places 18 “There’s ___ in team” Night comics
62 Zeus’s Norse counterpart 20 See 12-Across 53 Dark
63 See 19-Across 24 Lion’s warning 54 Differently ___ (PC
64 Reason to go to overtime 25 River obstruction euphemism)
65 Proceeded 26 Slop trough locale 57 Feedbag food
66 “Take a look ___ now...” (Phil 28 Greek letter shaped like a 58 First caucus state
Collins lyric) pitchfork 59 It may be feathered or scaled
67 AIDS, e.g. 31 Titans’ org. 60 Young newt
68 Zeus’s warlike son 32 A Raisin in the Sun actress Ruby 61 33⅓, 45, or 78, perhaps
FOLLOW YOUR HEAD
”Everything follows the head in life,”
says the Perkei de Rabbi Eliezer. “And an
empty head will lead to an empty life.”
Filling your head with knowledge is the
surest way to avoid an empty-headed
life. In this puzzle, 14 clues are looking to
improve themselves. Though they
appear in a somewhat negative light,
following their heads leads to a positive
conclusion. So put your thinking cap on.
Following their heads…
ACROSS
1 Avoid
5 Feathered accessory
8 …hurtful types become mind-
blowing?
13 …those occupying lawyers
become touched?
15 Bagel topping
16 Trim
17 ___ There Yet? (Ice Cube series)
18 Tool-using animal
19 Like the passion of ex-exes
20 …a homewrecker becomes
educational?
22 “___ of Gold” (Sting song)
23 Tub 64 Sorority restriction 25 …those that may be shrill
24 Cut crudely 65 Go quickly become not so forward?
25 …a guy loitering becomes 66 …one that’s a bit rocky becomes 26 Diarist Nin
authoritative about food? commemorative? 27 Response to unsolicited advice
29 “Bullet the Blue Sky” singer 67 …one covering up a slip becomes 28 Russian ruler of old
30 Totality ceremonial? 29 …one with an agenda
33 Tattoos 68 Quirky becomes stabilizing at night?
34 Country whose flag had a three- 69 Again 30 ___ friends
headed elephant 31 Western director Sergio
36 Marisa of In the Bedroom DOWN 32 …one prone to cruising
38 Darling dog? 1 Con becomes like a star?
39 …one taken in a trial becomes 2 Mata ___ 35 First string
upright? 3 Gives in to an addiction 37 Yemen’s neighbor
41 Where 4-Down wants a colony 4 Trump supporter Gingrich 40 Messing with Will?
42 Christian’s creations 5 Explosion 43 They can be mesh or smoke
44 Shallowest Great Lake 6 “My bad!” 48 Owns
45 Girl of Green Gables 7 Dwarf’s weapon, often 50 Land units
46 Opposite of NNE 8 Popular jam flavor 51 Buffy’s Watcher
47 Shrinking lake in Africa 9 Small stream 52 Exposed
49 …an explosive type becomes 10 Ship’s body 53 …those who play around a lot
interested in heavy metal? 11 Oklahoma city 100 miles away become able to hold a mop?
51 Small unit of mass from Oklahoma City 54 Smell
52 Minion of Sauron 12 …those making a scene become 55 Maggie Smith, e.g.
53 Warm ___ (zombie love movie) communicative? 56 ___ pro quo
56 …some two-bit sorts become 14 Fulfill, as a term 57 “See you later!”
strategic? 21 English nobles 58 Prince Harry’s school
61 Robin’s friend Alan-___ 22 One who might cheer 59 Norse letter
62 Track in a dirt road 24 Mubarak deposed in the Arab 60 Gush
63 Chow down Spring 62 It follows pi
ROOT FOR THE UNDERDOG
Playwright Neil Simon says, “Sports is
the only entertainment where, no
matter how many times you go back,
you never know the ending.” Some of
our most memorable sports stories are
when athletes overcome long odds to
defeat a titanic foe. Here are some
outcomes that we might not have
expected.

ACROSS
1 Frozen heroine
5 Chicken ___ (Italian dish,
colloquially)
9 IRS action
14 Apricot centers
15 Role for Ron
16 Nocturnal sound
17 Team that demolished the heavily
favored Denver Broncos in Super
Bowl XLIX
20 C, in Arabic numerals
21 Verb often after “abort”
22 Wet wiggler
23 Injured gymnast whose 1996
Olympic vault ended decades of
Eastern European rule
26 He played Pierce 67 Hollywood’s Tim or Tyne 30 TV dial
27 Business abbr. 68 Summer buzzer 33 Have as a debt
28 Comic Costello 69 Eat away at 35 Buccaneer’s activity
29 Make a frowny face 70 Church section 36 Danger from spoiled food
31 Acronym for a team that leaves 71 Man-eating giant 37 Clay pigeon
out “of Anaheim” 39 Chore
32 Boofy hairstyle, for short DOWN 40 What a roadie may carry
34 Realtor’s offerings 1 Short records, for short 41 Weirdos
38 No. 6 seed that won the 1983 2 Prevaricate 42 LBJ’s youngest daughter
NCAA basketball tourney over 3 You may see one railing against 47 One picking up drugs or
Houston’s favored Phi Slama Jama it? computers
43 Teapot issuance 4 Family of finance 48 “Don’t worry about it,” in
44 Alternative to com or gov 5 Elected sort, for example Spanish
45 ___ v. Wade 6 It opens on a camera 50 Meets the standard of truth
46 Tater 7 Stadium feature 52 Blackjack player’s command
49 601, in historical texts 8 Get-together 53 Hip-hop singer who has
51 Tavern quaff 9 Pale coached on The Voice
52 Finn of literature 10 “___ Paloma Blanca” 54 Hip-hop singer who has
55 Undersized horse who surprisingly 11 Rod coached on The Voice
defeated the vaunted War Admiral 12 Ticked off 56 Music licensing org.
58 British verb-making suffix 13 High-end electric car 57 African river also known as the
59 “The top 2 percent,” purportedly 18 Work hard Zaire
60 Roll for a lawn 19 2012 Affleck drama 59 Cart locale
61 Unexpected semifinal victory of 23 Potter’s devices 62 Alter, as a level of a videogame
the 1980 US men’s Olympic hockey 24 Pass, as a law 63 Site of rods and cones
team 25 Like a pillow 64 Firebird, e.g.
66 Honeydew, e.g. 26 Upon 65 Summer in Paris
REMEMBER THE FALLEN
A yahrzeit candle is a candle lit to
commemorate the anniversary of the
death of a loved one. At the start of this
century, we all suffered a grave loss,
from which many Americans have not
completely recovered. Even though
most of us don’t know any of the people
directly alluded to in this puzzle’s theme
entries, we still think of them today.
Light a candle, put pencil to paper, and
remember.

ACROSS
1 Melinda, to Bill
5 Fellow
9 Fed
13 Brainchild
14 Steamrolls, perhaps
16 Moderately good
17 Jousting competition
18 With 34-, 42-, and 58-Across,
casualties of September 11,
2001
20 Landed
22 Beverly Hills 90210 actress
Spelling
23 Artisan with an anvil
24 Smidgens DOWN 35 Nest fodder
27 Sine ___ non 1 Quipster’s attribute 36 Sprained ankle treatment
30 10th anniversary gift 2 The Last King of Scotland dictator 38 ___ standstill
31 Sought, as an office 3 La Dolce Vita director 39 Looney Tunes marsupial, familiarly
33 Soda chugger’s sound 4 Michael Jackson parody by “Weird 40 Grow old
34 See 18-Across Al” 41 Satisfied
36 Sherlock Holmes’s sometime 5 Busy bee on Apr. 15 42 Instrument in a song by The
love interest 6 Denver omelet ingredient Doubleclicks or Molly Lewis
37 Gob of gum 7 The ___ (U District road) 43 Final resting place of 18- and
38 King topper? 8 According to 34-Across, for short
39 Implied 9 Bygone Russian ruler 44 Sort
42 See 18-Across 10 Actress who won a Precious Oscar 45 “Fed,” in this puzzle
48 Wide-eyed 11 Unified 46 “Hot corner,” often
49 1970s space station 12 The ___ Ladies’ Detective 47 Marley ___ (2008 film about a dog)
50 Supply with weapons Agency (novel about 49 Role played by both Leonard
51 Path to enlightenment Botswana’s first female private and Zachary in the Star Trek
52 Smidgen eye) reboot
53 First 5 of 26 15 Ravi Shankar’s instrument 52 ___ Lanka
55 Corrida creature 19 NYSE listings 54 House of Lords member
57 Clothing 21 It may be identified by the 56 Rice-shaped pasta
58 See 18-Across Department of Homeland Security 58 Back of the boat
64 It’s got lanes and gutters 23 The Simpsons character Disco ___ 59 Barnyard sound
66 TV character who literally 24 Hole ___ (golfer’s goal) 60 “___ Poetica” (MacLeish
jumped the shark, with “the” 25 Best-___ (NBA Finals format) poem)
67 Reuben ingredient 26 9 ___ (Dolly Parton film) 61 At this time, to a lolcat
68 ___ buco (veal dish) 28 Crematory receptacle 62 “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-
69 Oz visitor 29 Caesar, in a 2011 film Lime Soda,” today
70 One might harass the frosh 32 Tack on 63 The WB series ___ Heaven
71 One sixty-billionth of a min. 33 Practiced animal husbandry 65 Bashful housemate?
UNDERTAKE A PILGRIMAGE
Jerusalem’s Pilgrim Road is constructed
of two stairs, then a long landing, then
two stairs, then another landing, and so
on. So here in this puzzle, where the
circled spaces go two up, then over, and
repeat, picking up below after they
reach a wall. As you head out along the
road, you’ll find some words of wisdom.

ACROSS
1 One of two in a football game
5 Steak purchase
10 See 7-Down
14 “Break ___!”
15 Baklava ingredient
16 Web addresses
17 Drug on Breaking Bad
18 Speechmake
19 Irritate greatly
20 In ___ (as originally placed)
22 Person like Judi Dench
24 Mission ___, CA
26 Comic offering
29 Berliner’s statement of gratitude
32 “I found it!”
33 Some Midwesterners
36 Overly
37 “Bye!” DOWN 35 Bill, the Science Guy
39 Just a little fishy 1 Denver omelet ingredient 38 Do Brad Pitt’s job
40 “Q ___ Queen” 2 Tavern quaff 40 Type of battery
41 Make lovey-dovey sounds 3 “Come and get it!” 42 “I found it!”
43 Ms. Longoria 4 Alphabetical string 44 Letters on a 1980s tape
45 Reluctant 5 Biblical pronoun 45 With 13-Down, quote speaker
48 Volt/ampere 6 Abbr. for NYC divisions 46 Valueless
51 Attacks 7 “I’m ___” (Lonely Island song, 47 Explanatory section of a blog
55 McChord is one, for short with 10-Across) 48 Extra periods, for short
56 Is cleverer than 8 One of two in a hockey game 49 I-5, e.g.
59 Mahmoud Abbas’s grp. 9 Black ___ Peas 50 It may be connected to an amp
60 Sean Lennon’s relatives 10 Myanmar, sometimes 52 Issued, as nonsense
62 “Gotcha!” 11 Directs, as to a compass point 53 So far
63 Citi dropped this in 1998 12 Detergent brand 54 Spinny thing
64 Attending, as a nightclub 13 See 45-Down 57 Sign of progress
66 Infuse 21 “Tik ___” (Kesha song) 58 Word before “veiled”
68 Go dancing, in 1920s slang 23 Spots on your TV 61 Depot, briefly
70 Like many a terrible hotel 24 Large tank 63 Under the Dome network
72 Suffix for liberal or crony 25 Guitarist James formerly of the 65 Region
73 Time period Smashing Pumpkins 67 “Catch ___ Falling” (1987
74 1051, in Rome 26 Wildebeest Pretty Poison hit)
75 Ice cream bigwig Joseph 27 Poisonous critter 68 Prefix used to contrast with
76 Date 28 Where to buy Levi’s “trans-” before “gender”
77 ___ Given Sunday 30 Pond denizens 69 Oft-debated type of marriage
78 Class with ropes 31 Long period 70 “Shocking!” in internet slang
79 Make batik 34 Past 71 Deli bread
 OPEN YOUR DOORS EXTEND THE TABLE

AVOID GOSSIP SPEND YOUR MONEY ON GOOD BOOKS

BE NATURE’S CUSTODIAN PROTEST INJUSTICE

DO EVERYTHING IN MODERATION GET IN THE HABIT OF DANCING

LEARN TO PLAY AN INSTRUMENT BE A BETTER BOSS

TREAT THE SICK WITH KINDNESS MAKE LIGHT OF YOUR SUFFERING

MARVEL AT THORNS AMID ROSES KNOW WHAT YOU EAT

SHARE GIFTS WITH YOUR PARTNER COME TO SOMEONE’S RESCUE

SING OUT AGAINST PREJUDICE SILENCE YOUR CRITICS

 GIVE LIFE TO MANY PLAY WITH YOUR BRAIN

DO GOOD THINGS THREE TIMES DRESS BOLDLY

IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT WAR TRY TO REMEMBER

 ACT WHEN DANGER STRIKES ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS

EMBRACE YOUR MISTAKES TRAVEL WITHOUT FEAR

DON’T LET AGE SLOW YOU DOWN GIVE A MAN A GOAT

 COMPOSE A POEM PREPARE BEFORE TEMPTATION

LET MUSIC SOOTHE YOUR SOUL REFUSE ON PRINCIPLE

WORK THROUGH YOUR GRIEF TREAT YOUR WATER WISELY

DIVE INTO A SEA OF THOUGHT CLEAN UP YOUR DOORSTEP

MAKE TIME FOR EVERYTHING CHANGE YOUR LUCK

STRIVE FOR CLARITY BREATHE

 AVOID ISOLATION SEEK THE FARAWAY CLOSE TO HOME

LOOK AT THE JEWELS YOU CARRY FOLLOW YOUR HEAD

SETTLE YOUR DISPUTES ROOT FOR THE UNDERDOG

REMEMBER THE FALLEN UNDERTAKE A PILGRIMAGE