ACROSS
1. Contraction
6. Hustle
10. Vocal part
14. Raccoon-like animal
15. Margarine
16. Kind of saxaphone
17. __/Family, experimental
folk band
18. Came into existence
19. Soap bar company
20. Using a keyboard
22. Rose from sleep
24. Can be inflated by
compliments
25. Tonight Show host
27. Ogling
29. “None of your __”
32. Still
33. Approx. appearance time
34. Candle centers
37. Baby’s bed
41. Mike Myers was “The
Love __”
43. French agreement
44. Employ
45. River deposit
46. Edit, like the Constitution
48. Digital design (abbr.)
49. Short for short
51. Seoul natives
54. For a specific purpose
56. Wrote, present day
57. Purchase
58. Slow down!
60. Stir up
64. Revise
66. Continent with the shortest
name
68. Chopin’s practice music
69. Musical currently nomi
nated for an Oscar
70. Diseases
71. Judy Dench film “__ on a
Scandal”
72. Italian general
73. Hyperbolic function in trigonometry
74. Biscuit, for dogs
DOWN
1. Vocal improvisation
2. The __ Little Puppy
3. Nonprofit for retirees
4. Like rocks
5. Little fish
6. Weep
7. Jester
8. Prefix for plane or smith
9. Human’s ancestors
10. Kind of romance
11. U.F.O Pilot
12. Canned chili
13. Go it alone
21. Not just nibble
23. What a Cyclops can’t afford
to lose
26. Self-evident truth
28. Scratcher’s target
29. Begs
30. Decorative needle case
31. Duke, Duke, Duke of __
35. Shark’s stick
36. Naughty
38. Costa __
39. Persia, today
40. Where oysters hang out
42. Six-sided state
46. Antiquated
47. Slip a Mickey
50. A violinist may use one or
take one
52. Cave
53. Blue-pencil wielder
54. Video companion
55. Faulkner’s “As I Lay __”
56. Flip response?
57. __ it like Beckham
59. Capital on a fjord
61. Puppyish
62. Mental flash
63. Reason to cram
65. Summer shirt, for short
67. He’s gotta catch them all