Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

34 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

Across

1. Interstate hauler


2. Calcutta misters


3. Coffee preference


4. Abruptly dismissed


5. Monastery man


6. End of “the end of”


7. Tenacious bug?


8. Musical refrain syllables


9. “Goodness gracious!”


10. “Elvis ___ left the
    building”


11. Disappoint


12. Curious bug?


13. Open-air rooms


14. ___-tat-tat (machine gun
    sounds)


15. Nastase of the tennis
    courts


16. Beehive, for one


17. Skirmish


18. Backdrop for Heidi


19. Jazzman’s lick


20. Leopard’s coat
    characteristic


21. Comical bug?


22. Schedules


23. Razor-billed bird


24. Square-dance step
    or call
    57. Complain
    59. Squirm-producing bugs?
    62. Evening wrap
    63. Canine from Kansas
    64. Desiccated
    65. Aspirations
    66. ___ Mawr
    67. Breakfast-in-bed
    facilitator

Down

1. “Thus ___ the Lord”


2. Word before “Read all
   about it!”


3. Flat-topped rises


4. Pastoral poem


5. Happy face icon


6. Palindromic antenna
   turner


7. Playable serves


8. Where stars shine


9. Frasier Cranes’ live-in


10. Wife of Geraint


11. Hand over


12. Environs


13. Jamie of MAS*H


14. Troubadour’s offering


15. “Who cares?”


16. Some forensic evidence


17. Giant player-manager
    Mel, 1942–47
    26. Good place to be in?
    27. Like cigarette smoke
    28. To boot
    29. Happy tune
    30. Wine sediment
    31. Melville captain
    32. Imaginary narrative
    33. Ready for the pickin’
    37. The Beaver State
    39. Exhausts, as a supply
    42. “When Will Loved”
    (Everly Brothers)
    43. Geisha’s accessory
    44. On edge
    47. Word on some doors
    48. The Far Side cartoonist
    50. “Li’l” one of comics
    51. Extreme
    52. Sometimes a Great
    Notion author
    53. Race of 100 yards
    54. “I’m your tricks!”
    55. Telegram punctuation
    word
    56. “Here on Gilligan’s ___”
    58. Boom support
    60. N.Y. wagering place
    61. Negative link

Puzzle 4: Stop Bugging Me!

Easy