Crossword October 2014

  • Across

    1. Perpendicular
    6. Grade A item
    9. Hiding place
    14. French painter who was an early cubist
    15. Paul McCartney, for one
    16. Chocolate source
    17. Resort city on the
    Black Sea
    18. Postal abbr.
    19. Where buds are found
    20. Where cups and bowls might be stored
    23. Shacks
    24. Fed. property manager
    25. Business that makes a lot of dough
    28. Deck (out)
    31. Mozart’s “L’___ del Cairo”
    32. Made hostile
    38. Bedroom furniture made from reddish-brown wood
    42. Place where books are bound
    43. Pie ___ mode
    44. National bird of Australia
    45. Strong desire
    48. Hearth remnant
    51. Stately residence
    55. Art in the garden
    60. Personnel person
    61. Tax
    62. Mannerism
    64. Patriarch
    65. Practice
    66. Prefix with red
    67. Exigencies
    68. ___ annum
    69. C4H8O2, e.g.

  • Down

    1. Type of wood
    2. Plumbing problem
    3. Tangelo
    4. It’s tested in battles
    5. Stimulating drink
    6. Major city on the Ruhr
    7. “Jack and the Beanstalk” baddie
    8. Artist, with El
    9. Cover for a wound
    10. Airport/hotel connection
    11. Mastering
    12. Company department
    13. Plantain lily
    21. Stable staple
    22. Fall-blooming flower
    25. Box office failure
    26. Type of berry
    27. American architect
    29. Wallet find
    30. Hot air
    32. “Gimme ___!” (start of an Iowa State cheer)
    33. Caustic substance
    34. Passports, e.g.
    35. Peter, for one
    36. Seafood delicacies
    37. “Shucks!”
    39. “___ to Billie Joe”
    40. Masterpiece
    41. Calla lilies
    45. Waiter’s expectation
    46. Good looking “Babe”
    47. Entombs
    48. Gray
    49. Fence feature
    50. Multitude
    52. Carry on
    53. Bring back to good health
    54. More devious
    56. Call for
    57. Goofs up
    58. Huck Finn’s conveyance
    59. Dublin’s home
    63. Pitch