By Jens Tamang

1 Playwright John Pielmeier’s “____ of God”

6 A _____ of cookies
11 Thirty-sixth President, for short
14 “It was the _____ I could do”

15 First recipient of the BRIT Awards Critics’ Choice
16. Payback notice
17 Actress in “Hocus Pocus” and “The Stepford Wives”
19 With Douglas, a tree popular in OR
20 Our nation
21 With “the,” slang for diarrhea
22 Seldom
24 Protagonist Daniels of “The Birds”
26 Flirty gaze
27 One who delivers babies
31 “Beat it!”

34 Denim jeans company
35 Animal house?
36 A room with a lamp
37 With Pike, Natalie of “Fresh Concepts”

39 Popular music composer Jerome David
40 Cup for teas
41 “The Death of _____ Ilyich”

42 Pass the time
43 Space cases, poets and pot heads
47 Turn away, as in the gaze
48 Those who get “Stroke!” yelled at them (Hint: not those with artery problems)
52 Statement of intent to harm
54 Poet Eliot
55 Order at the Blue Door
56 To court, maybe
57 To change quickly: “Turn on __ ____”
59 Leather piercing tool
60 Greek mythology: Muse of lyric poetry
64 Wreathed in ivy
65 Look!
66 Hamlet: a play ___ ___ Denmark
67 Seattle based band of the 2005 album “The Question”
1 Record, maybe
2 Big ducks?
3 Of the womb
4 Founded, for short
5 Chest bone
6 The “B” in 11 across
7 Op. of subtracts
8 ___ Aviv
9 Catholic churchmen
10 People who announce things
11 Some large models or a movie starring Tyra Banks
12 Puss filled bump
13 They’re the real judge
18 “The Mountains of California” author John
23 UltraShort Technology ProShares stock abbr.
25 What’s missing from “I was shopping ___ the grocer’s”
26 A bad sign, maybe
28 Photographer Kulikova
29 In front
30 Very long time
31 Kinison, Peckinpah, and Shepard
32 Game with Colonel Mustard
33 A convoluted procedure
37 Blatant!
38 Measure of electricity
39 Larry Clark’s first feature film
41 Conceives
42 In a state of loss, particularly death
44 “But ___ already done it!”

45 Sin’s nemesis?
46 Defiant noise
49 America’s top hat?
50 Pig on the glue bottle, presumably
51 Women are often accused of being this
52 Archaic sentence starter
53 Playwright Tina
54 Moving from “La ___ to Do”

58 Stupid, maybe
61 Email subject starter
62 “Have ___ it”
63 “Life __ Mars