Crossword for Wed, 15/Sep/2021

1
 
2
 
3
 
4
 
5
 
6
 
7
 
8
 
9
 
10
 
11
 
12
 
13
 
14
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21
 
22
 
 
 
 
 
23
 
24
 
 
 
 
 
25
 
 
 
 
 
26
 
27
 
 
 
 
 
28
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29
 
30
 
31
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
32
 
33
 
 
 
 
 
34
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
35
 
 
 
 
 
36
 
37
 
 
 
38
 
39
 
40
 
41
 
 
 
 
 
42
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
43
 
44
 
 
 
 
 
45
 
 
 
 
 
46
 
47
 
48
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
49
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
50
 
 
 
51
 
52
 
 
 
 
 
53
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
54
 
55
 
56
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
57
 
58
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
59
 
 
 
 
 
60
 
 
 
 
 
61
 
62
 
 
 
 
 
63
 
64
 
65
 
66
 
 
 
 
 
67
 
68
 
 
 
 
 
69
 
70
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
71
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
72
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
73
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
74
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
75
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
76
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Across
1: Bad press?

6: Goes for

10: Finder's cries

14: Square things

15: Meter reading

16: Unload, as stock

17: Cross the goal line

18: Fluffy mass

19: Angelic aura

20: Wrestling moves

22: Bright, as a color

24: Little one

25: Given the ax, with “off”

27: Clergymen

29: You might take it lying down

33: Chicken-to-be

34: Bedazzles

35: Behaves

37: Steep in wine

41: Grassland

42: Welsh emblems

44: Ancient mariner

45: With an ulterior motive

48: Gyrate

49: Worrisome engine noise

50: Van Gogh's love offering

52: Unmoving pieces by Henry Moore, e.g.

54: Heavenly bodies

58: Train for a title fight

59: Attention getter

60: Force

62: Like some comebacks

66: Is short and shy

68: Make a mistake

70: Become accustomed

71: Color for the tickled

72: What the fourth little piggy had

73: Tiny carnivore

74: Hang around

75: Do a spit take

76: Dwells (on)

Down
1: Bringing up the rear

2: Uneasy tingling

3: Rude person

4: Records

5: Margin

6: Not right

7: Gloom

8: Assemblage of people

9: Safe and sound

10: Can opener?

11: Preliminary races

12: Pass out

13: Casino machines, briefly

21: Rugmaking fiber

23: Excavates

26: Cuts into small pieces

28: Teamwork deterrent

29: Piercing tools

30: Caroling song

31: On vacation, perhaps

32: Dozen for a recovery group

36: Revue segments

38: Elec., e.g.

39: Rational

40: Units of work

43: Center-to-quarterback transitions

46: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

47: Fabric shop purchase

49: Carnivorous fish

51: Rules

53: Send away

54: Compares prices

55: Black-headed gull

56: 'Laughing' predator

57: Buttinsky

61: Musical pitch

63: Happy cat's sound

64: Warm up, for short

65: Trees yielding elastic wood

67: The limit, for some

69: Not very many





Solution (Reversed)
S
A
H
A
S
T
P
O
L
E
B
I
L
L
L
E
S
E
R
A
F
E
N
O
T
A
O
L
A
H
C
O
L
F
E
R
O
C
S
T
O
T
D
U
O
L
S
W
O
R
H
T
S
T
S
E
I
R
P
D
I
A
L
G
G
E
S
I
S
Y
L
A
N
A
E
S
U
O
S
S
T
C
A
S
W
O
W
R
A
T
S
K
E
E
L
A
E
L
G
N
I
P
N
I
P
S
Y
L
Y
L
S
S
E
L
I
B
A
T
S
R
A
E
R
A
P
S
S
E
R
E
H
P
S
Y
P
P
A
N
S
T
N
I
D
Y
E
H
E
R
U
N
I
F
O
O
G
S
E
W
O
W
E
R
H
S
E
N
O
N
K
N
I
P
S
P
R
A
H
W
E
P
S
Y
A
T
S