Now He Belongs to the Ages

By George Barany and Marcia Brott

George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977). Marcia Brott is a human genome researcher by day, wordsmith by night. Both are currently at the University of Minnesota. For more about this specific puzzle, including a link to the answer, visit http://tinyurl.com/april1865puz. More Barany and Friends crosswords are at http://tinyurl.com/gbpuzzle.

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Across

1 First name in virology

6 Clear the field

10 Lines that break the fourth wall, perhaps

15 Like some wit

16 Prefix used with some hormones

17 Element in the spotlight?

18 Upside-down “e,” in pronunciation

19 Amor ___ (stoic philosophy espoused by Nietzsche)

20 Swearing words

21 “New York Times” headline of April 15, 1865, Part 1

24 Like some wit

26 When most kids are in first grade

27 Andrews or Edwards: Abbr.

30 “New York Times” headline of April 15, 1865, Part 2

34 El Al hub city

35 Pekoe or Darjeeling

36 Letter from Greece

37 Bollywood actress and one-time Miss World Aishwarya

38 Continental currency

40 Tolled

43 Maker of Zocor and Fosamax

45 1957 Balanchine-Stravinsky ballet

46 Lake where Perry met the enemy in 1813

47 Zaire’s Mobutu Sese ___

48 “New York Times” headline of April 15, 1865, Part 3

53 First name shared by Signores Bugatti and Maserati

54 Goes down or lets up

55 Religious observance coinciding with the news item described in the headline

60 Ready to eat

63 Aristocratic address

64 Backscratcher target

68 Thames school since 1440

69 Crazed Muppet drummer

70 Pop, by another name

71 Like a real vixen

72 Nary a soul

73 Sector with startups

 

Down

1 Law firm hirees, for short

2 Middle Earth menace

3 Kabuki ancestor

4 Irving Berlin classic from 1925

5 It might come with a club

6 Wildlife preserve, for example

7 West Coast wellness retreat

8 Bear witness

9 Exclusive rights

10 Nerve cell projection

11 Alaska Airlines hub city

12 1099-___ (tax form sent by a bank)

13 Homer Simpson’s contribution to the O.E.D.

14 “Uncanny” trio

22 One way to end a scene

23 Where to get off

24 “What hath God ___?” (early demonstration by Samuel Morse)

25 Medicinal herb named for its colorful base

28 1994 Oscar-winning role for Tom

29 Nickname of Eric Clapton’s iconic Stratocaster

30 “What do you say?” response

31 Often-mispunctuated pronoun

32 Object of a boomer’s protest

33 Coolpix cameras, for example

39 Origin and development of an organism

41 Keats praised one

42 Long in Hollywood

44 Lamb or Bacon

49 “Don’t tase me, ___!”

50 “Star Trek” extra

51 Piece of Silver wear?

52 Court org.

56 Rat Pack nickname

57 Act the butterfly

58 Cowboy quarterback Tony

59 Farsi-speaking nation

60 Whistle blower?

61 Midori on ice

62 “A ___ on both your houses!”

65 Stocking stuffer

66 Org. concerned with Ebola

67 “As if!”