Puzzles

Crossword: ''Peace Sign Hook''

Sounds a little naughty, don't it?

By MATT JONES | July 18, 2007

Across
1 Research site
4 Many gamblers claim to have one
10 Got on in years
14 Jeff Lynne group
15 City between Olympia and Seattle
16 Nasty
17 Golf alternative
20 Opposing
21 Stops
22 Put back
24 Unable to work, maybe
25 Guitar innovator Paul
28 Dunking concern
33 Checkbook fig.
36 "People-Powered Howard"
37 Desert plant
38 Incite
40 Alternate title for this puzzle
43 Lean toward, as with a demographic
44 Consomme gelatin dish
46 Fits of anger
48 Unit tracked by the Nikkei Index
49 Presenters since 1981
53 It may be golden
54 Shaker contents, in France
55 Stuck in the microwave
59 Try to impress, in a way
64 Waste, to a two-year-old
65 She played Toonces' owner
68 Cheesecake flavor
69 Norse home of the gods
70 Head doc
71 In the vicinity, as guesses go
72 It's not mine
73 Larry smacker

Down
1 "Reading Rainbow" host Burton
2 On its own
3 They go great with nuts
4 Road map lines: abbr.
5 Moves side to side, like an aircraft
6 "Beat it, punk!"
7 Bedsheet, at party time
8 Vomit-inducing agent
9 Capital on the Pacific Rim
10 "I agree"
11 Finds a friend for the evening
12 Corrode
13 "CSI" evidence
18 Third-largest city in the Soviet Union
19 Like Santa Claus and Jay Leno
23 Budget airline
26 Pageant host
27 Make more fish
29 Hit the gas pedal in neutral
30 Trump ___ Mahal
31 Of some Bengali languages
32 Au ___ (sandwich style)
33 "___ it some thought"
34 Polite refusal
35 He knows his toes
39 "Skate or ___!" (1987 arcade game)
41 "Evan Almighty" craft
42 "___-haw!"
45 Mag with quizzes
47 Prefix for "fuel"
50 Be derisive to
51 No youngster
52 Perform badly
56 Last name in Top 40 shows
57 ___ Lodge
58 "Clerks" store clerk Hicks
60 It's just a little bit
61 Emotion felt in fits
62 California hometown of the Bionic Woman
63 Henry VIII's last wife Catherine ___
65 Swear
66 It's available after work
67 What MP3 players sought to replace