By Warren Manners
Across
1 Attempt
5 Eighth in a series
10 Mideast gulf
14 Caterpillar product
15 “This is ____”: David Foster Wallace
16 Easter ___
17 Black cuckoos
18 Doctorate exams
19 Briefly, briefly
20 Elizabeth Montgomery
23 Theol. degree
24 It may be elementary
25 Traffic problem
27 Levee
30 It divides to multiply
33 Logic proposition
37 Hebrew month preceding Yom Kippur
39 Saharan nation
40 007, e.g.
41 Squat
42 Chest protector
43 CIS precursor
44 Egyptian deity
45 Communion wafers
46 Intention
48 Bangladeshi currency
50 South Korean city
52 “Law & Order” staple
57 Chain letters?
59 Sofia Scorsese
62 Scoundrel
64 Hebrew prophet
65 Charles Lamb alias
66 Egyptian deity
67 Jorge Messi, to Leo
68 Dark cloud
69 Proceed along a route
70 Op-ed openers
71 Act. Sci. major, for example
Down
1 Solicits in bulk
2 County north of San Francisco
3 Very silly
4 Low man at the Met
5 Tissue descriptor
6 Fast one
7 End of some lists
8 Poker giveaways
9 Magazine store?
10 Gran finale
11 Pat Summit
12 Quaint lament
13 “Blue” grp.
21 Floats
22 Power source
26 Swain
28 Ohio city
29 “Middlemarch” author George
31 Cry like a lamb
32 Put-ons
33 Give props to
34 Choice word
35 Joan of Arc
36 Opera diva Callas
38 Arm’s runner?
42 Sit on it
44 Kind of chest pain
47 It’s multi-faceted
49 Famous Austrian painters Gustav and Ernst
51 Topic for Strunk and White
53 Turnips, in Scotland
54 Panache
55 Serviceable
56 A song of David
57 Chess result
58 Choose
60 Storage spot
61 It’s a shore thing
63 Computer keyboard key
Solutions may be emailed to cont.puzzles@gmail.com.
In order to make the solver list, your solutions must be received by June 1, 2023.
Solvers: Dean Apps, Karl Baker, Bob Campbell, Lois Cappellano, Jared Dashoff, Todd Dashoff, Nick Franceschine, Pete Hepokoski, Ken Kudrak, George Levine, Jim Muza, Ray Niswander, Raman Rajagopalan, Madhumathi Windon & Steve Altschuld, and Wendy Windsor.