cross01mr08

Across
1. force to fight rich man's war (5)
6. happen (5)
11. stitch (3)
14. type of screw (5)
15. no person (2-3)
16. female reproductive cells (3)
17. always been the way (11)
19. lexicon; law (3)
20. munch, munch (3)
21. expert (3)
22. thin soup (6)
24. let these dogs lay (8)
27. need a cyclotron to split (4)
28. ruby or mason jar (3)
29. to this matter; hereto (8)
33. Winnipeg and New Orleans had
one (5)
36. bird ___ (4)
37. ___ up in knots (4)
38. left after demolition (3)
39. underlying principle (5)
40. last letter (3)
41. woodwind (4)
43. bad country roads have these (4)
44. what a door does (5)
46. outer structure of prison unit (4,4)
48. it’s the season for this illness (3)
49. obituary (slang) (4)
50. event in front of house (4,4)
55. compelling, like a rushed letter (6)
57. decompose (3)
58. what beavers build (3)
59. Chinese dynasty A.D. 589-618 (3)
60. scatter information (11)
64. S (3)
65. city in Japan (5)
66. sulking, listless one (5)
67. TV or chemistry (3)
68. watery cheese bi-products (5)
69. open door to gain ___ (5)

Down
1. circled on calendar (5)
2. out in the sticks (5)
3. playing marble substance (5)
4. completed a meal; a government
jurisdiction (3)
5. after the shoelaces were tied
together, the man ___ (7)
6. cut this and cry (5)
7. pigeons do this (3)
8. a bad artist (3)
9. oblivious (pl) (8)
10. give account of (6)
11. go through with ceremony (9)
12. at all times (4)
13. candles and dirty ears (4)
18. cut on edge (4)
23. to drum up support (4)
25. Harper has a big ___ (3)
26. dreadful; horrible (7)
30. protection; sponsorship (4)
31. 13-19 (4)
32. 1,3,5,7... (4)
33. flocculus (4)
34. where earrings go (4)
35. ear doctor (9)
36. membrane cap (4)
39. brat-like (8)
42. river flows to North Sea (4)
44. characteristic of past (3-4)
45. sign of infection (3)
47. cleaned with glass cleaner (6)
48. coming ___ vs. going to (4)
51. regions, places (5)
52. to convert to another use (5)
53. put it off till ___ (5)
54. rough paper (5)
55. Swiss army knife has many ___ (4)
56. trick (4)
61. self addressed envelope (3)
62. chicken little’s worry (3)
63. yes, no, oui, ___ (3)

DOUBLE TIME! TWO LINKS THIS ISSUE! Letters in circles are used
to complete following phrases: 1st entry: Robert ___ ___, followed by
three letter null-break. Followed by 2nd entry: ____ massacre. Enter
phrases into searchbar on wikipedia website (en.wikipedia.org)

Answers to the puzzle from our March 1-15 issue.
Across: 1) draft 6) occur 11) sew 14) auger 15) no-one 16) ova
17) traditional 19) lex 20) eat 21) pro 22) watery 24) sleeping
27) atom 28) gem 29) hereunto 33) flood 36) cage 37) tied 38) lot
39) basis 40) zed 41) oboe 43) ruts 44) opens 46) cell wall 48) flu 49) obit
50) yard sale 55) urgent 57) rot 58) dam 59) sui 60) disseminate
64) ess 65) Osaka 66) moper 67) set 68) wheys 69) entry
Down: 1) dates 2) rural 3) agate 4) fed 5) tripped 6) onion 7) coo 8) con
9) unawares 10) relate 11) solemnize 12) ever 13) waxy 18) trim
23) tout 25) ego 26) ghastly 30) egis 31) teen 32) odds 33) floc
34) lobe 35) otologist 36) caul 39) brattish 42) Elbe 44) old-time
45) pus 47) window 48) from 51) areas 52) adapt 53) later 54) emery
55) uses 56) ruse 61) sae 62) sky 63) non

Answers to the puzzle from our Feb. 16-29 issue.
Across: 3) ess 5) Ala 7) gadflies 8) Ely 10) restrictiveness 13) toured
14) easiest 18) gin rummy 20) whams
Down: 1) tenderer 2) massive 4) silicide 6) ace 7) gessoes 9) lee
11) nods 12) sap 15) ajuga 16) ism 17) to 19) is 21) he 22) my