APR '20

APRIL CROSSWORD

Across
1. Give a mercilessly negative review
5. Greek god of love
9. Bernie ___ (comedian)
12. Gateway to the cybersphere
13. Singing style exemplified by Ella Fitzgerald
14. Classic Ukrainian novelist Nikolay
16. The big, big, big screen 17. Whittle
18. “Path of Exile” Bandit Lord
19. *Her predecessor
21. Measure of broadcast TV shows’ popularity
23. *Her first stone
27. “All hail the end of the working week!”
28. Held in secret
31. Environmental prefix
33. Sexy
34. Endorian furball
36. In films, invasive exam conducted on UFOs
40. Dallas, TX-headquartered telecom. company

41. *Her second stone
43. Pet doc
44. Sag 
46. With -mine, brain chemical popularly credited with pleasure sensation 
47. Eerie beginnings?
48. In Greek, precedes Omega
50. “Sorry, ___” (“Deal with it!”)
53. Missing U?
56. *Her iconic weather system 58. Wailing figure of Irish myth
60. *Her name
64. Oft-discarded part of a sandwich
65. Fuego and Taco (eateries)
69. Meaty pasta sauce
70. Make an axe hum
71. The two sides of Marshall Mathers
72. Winner of all four major entertainment awards, for short
73. ___ in (fence)
74. Make haste
75. For mariners, easily manageable 

Down
1. Do the backstroke or butterfly
2. Capital of Peru
3. From ___ (a distance)
4. Analog playlist formats following tapes and preceding iTunes
5. Psychic powers (abbr.)
6. Electronics co. acquired by GE
7. Paddle
8. Shock-jock Howard
9. Twins hall-of-famer Paul
10. Getting older
11. Elizabeth II’s favorite canine
14. Heater
15. SoCal; NoCal?
20. Go quickly
22. Gator or Power
24. “Up an’ ___!” (“Get a move on!”)
25. Spoke, as a cat
26. Antiperspirant subject of a Townshend ode
28. Neighbor of Libya, Sudan, and Cameroon
29. Tolkien masterwork (abbr.)
30. Palindromic German name
32. Windy City cops, for short
35. Comic book onomatopoeia
37. Under’s inverse
38. Water, starch, yeast, hops, and time
39. Online crafts marketplace
41. Brief albums
42. Tardy
45. Marsupial which survives by seeming dead
49. English suffix for transitive verbs
51. Span. title
52. Bird of prey found everywhere but Antarctica
53. Among life’s first lessons
54. Third rock from the sun
55. Accustom to something unpleasant
57. Actor Jon of “Napoleon Dynamite”
59. Standard web browser language
61. Set of musical pitches used in Indian improvisation
62. Dr. Frankenstein’s #2 
63. Guitar antecedent, dating back to Ancient Egypt
66. Australian cousin of the ostrich
67. Paul or Moonves
68. “That’s just awful,” in txt