Check out the answers to Metro’s daily crossword puzzle.
- ACROSS
1 Fishtailed
6 Cellar, briefly
10 Circus routines
14 Remove graphite
15 Cattail
16 After that
17 Ekberg of films
18 Bireme movers
19 Improve, as skills
20 Where monks dine
22 High-IQ group
23 Kind of rage
24 Headed for the hammock
26 Big cheese
29 Soir follower
31 “– Baba and the Forty Thieves”
32 Bullring shout
33 Rabbit dish
34 It gets dunked (2 wds.)
38 Guide
40 Charlotte of “Bananas”
42 Agreeable
43 Insert a leaf
46 Pew locale
49 Hibernate
50 Extinct bird
51 Part of G.T.O.
52 Wind dir.
53 Run amok in the mall
57 Romanov title
59 Classic Tierney role
60 Intensity
65 Ranch measure
66 Dry riverbed
67 George or T.S.
68 Belly dance “must”
69 Comics pooch
70 Steamship
71 Whirlpool
72 Not e’en once
73 Peach pit
- DOWN
1 Wine label info
2 Handel contemporary
3 Very thin model
4 Organic compound
5 Minor clergy
6 More gloomy
7 Char a steak
8 Ms. Streep
9 QB objectives
10 Spartan’s foe
11 Cheech’s partner
12 Nervous
13 Golfer Sam —
21 Without any slack
22 Pack animal
25 Breakfast grain
26 Meadow rodent
27 Holly tree
28 Fuel from a marsh
30 Nasal tone
35 Wait awhile
36 Playing cards
37 It may be spliced
39 Modestly
41 Less genteel
44 Asta’s mistress
45 Mr. Hammarskjold
47 Bud holder
48 Glossy paints
53 Work like a dog
54 Measured off
55 Wildly dramatic
56 Find a loophole
58 Fixed the pilot
61 Singer — Adams
62 Mexican lad
63 Film director Joel —
64 To be, to Yves
66 Came out on top
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