Here are the answers to the crossword puzzle from our newspaper published on December 1, 2017.
ACROSS 1 Choir member 5 Twist-off -- 8 TKO officials 12 Line on a map 13 Pasture moms 15 Donkey 16 Sapporo sport 17 Orderly 18 -- on (incited) 19 Diva's performances 21 Ringling Museum of Art site 23 Beatty of "Network" 24 -- de guerre 26 Tampa Bay pro 27 Courtyards 29 Spool 34 Hotel staff member 38 Wynonna Judd's mom 39 Plunder 40 Mergers and buyouts 42 Picket-line crosser 43 Cortes foe 45 Novosibirsk natives 47 Had to have 49 Lacking energy value (hyph.) 50 Eldest March girl 52 Freshly painted 53 Flower adornment 56 Galloped along 61 Totally lacking 63 Workers' group 64 "Kon- --" 66 Boundary line 67 Remove the bones 68 Noticed 69 Ottoman title 70 Bolted 71 Follow closely 72 Hires out
DOWN 1 Illegal burning 2 Jeweler's lens 3 Domesticated 4 Bouquet 5 Bowdlerized 6 Fill with wonder 7 Pod fillers 8 Carpets 9 Therefore 10 Worry too much 11 Pepsi offering 14 Wild guess 15 Lighthouse light 20 Debate side 22 Chafe 25 Sticks in the mud 27 Went on stage 28 Once more 30 Spaghetti sauce herb 31 -- Raton, Fla. 32 Somali-born supermodel 33 Robins' bills 34 "Braveheart" group 35 Flow slowly 36 Jot down 37 Macaroni shape 41 Withdrawing 44 Dental fixative 46 Evaluate 48 "The," to Wolfgang 51 Pulls down 53 Inn 54 Black billiard ball 55 Theories 56 Sleeve end 57 Indigo dye 58 Cleopatra's river 59 Steel- -- boots 60 Regimen 62 Tender cutlets 65 Type of parrot
