THE FRIDAY CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC LETTERS

ACROSS

1 Ol

4 Game fish

8 Biblical twin

13 Brainstorm

15 Ait

16 Shad genus

17 Ts

20 Donny or Marie

21 Kennedy stat

22 At a distance

23 Itemize

25 Lubricant

27 Gershwin lyricist

28 As

32 Droops

34 Philippine volcano

35 nous

37 Chopped

40 Talk show host

42 Hired thugs

44 Hub

45 Seeing red

47 Itinerary

49 Two fives

50 Sugar source

52 Ps

54 Hockey notable

56 Dreidel

58 Therefore

59 Rise as eagles

61 Seance sound

63 Edit

67 Bs

70 Small anchor

71 Emerald Isle

72 Bard

73 Valuable commodity

74 Vocalize

75 Forage grass DOWN

1 Puerto

2 Stirs

3 Tiller

4 Chirp

5 Fire residue

6 Blackthorn

7 Brief confrontation

8 Jolt

9 Other things: L.

10 Cs

11 Composer Straus

12 Port of Iraq

14 Herr Hitler

18 Sewed up: sl.

19 Platform

24 Private teacher

26 Stripling

28 Festive event

29 Shuts antithesis

30 Qs

31 Evidence

33 Snare

36 Accustom

38 Tied

39 Collision aftermath

41 Lode content

43 Headlining

46 Still

48 Incited, with on

51 Conservative

53 Chess plays

54 Japanese city

55 Lassos

57 Decorticates

60 Fierce emotion

62 Fairylike creature

64 Progress by small degrees  65 Ancient Greek portico

66 Glimpse

68 Soak

69 Serious transgression