My tearoom liaison

By Jens Tamang

Across
1 A tiny piece, as in hair
5 “Zounds!”

11 Mac alumn O’Brien
14 Natural burn remedy
15 Native name for Mt. McKinley
16 The “loneliest number”

17 Subversive group
19 Buddy
20 South American fish popular in the U.S.

21 Whitney, who invented the cotton gin
22 Disgusting
23 Soap or shampoo, for example
27 Searched
29 Actress Gardner
30 “Pay me back later” note
31 Wise men
34 A likely story?
38 With Ness, it’s Scotland’s bigfoot
40 What they sell in NBC’s “The Office”

42 To ignore contemptuously
43 Actor Hawke
45 “Video killed the _____ star”

47 Prefix with “cycle” and “beca”

48 “No ___, ands or buts”

50 U of M mascot
52 Hawthorne’s magnum opus, maybe
57 Lots
58 Wade v. ___
59 Dominant Middle Eastern religion
62 Motel of sorts
63 “Slumdog Millionaire” won this
66 A foot’s finger
67 “Party foul!”

68 Garfield’s canine companion
69 Spell
70 Skater’s hat, maybe
71 Tidy or interestingDown
1 Smell gently
2 “Trust me! Why would _ ___ to you?”

3 Fabric softener gives your sheets this
4 Oil product
5 Mac office that helps seniors get jobs in “the real world”

6 Auto last made in the 1930s
7 Geography: type of river
8 Singer Cole of “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone”

9 Annoying (human) red head of the “Tiny Toons”

10 Math: op. of cos
11 With “hot” it’s the emo shop
12 “All __ ___ it was a good day”

13 Combat
18 Reveres
22 Small glass containers, often tubular
24 Ballet jump
25 Allen Poe who wrote “The Raven”

26 Tennessee based federal flood control
27 Mosaic piece
28 Tree foot?
32 Federal environmental protection group
33 Botany: sweet flag
35 Middling music?
36 “It’s Freezing in here!”

37 Sacred Egyptian bird
39 A man’s sign of virility
41 Proletariat protest
44 Football league
46 Having to do with the eyes
49 Peaceful
51 Charleton of “Planet of the Apes”

52 John, as in Pocahontas’
53 Sort of paddle boat
54 An appendage
55 Puccini’s fifth opera
56 “Don’t ___ __ that I’m the criminal”

63 Cordial nomenclature
64 Type of juggling ball with strings