Here are the answers to the crossword puzzle from our newspaper published on November 8, 2017.
ACROSS 1 -- salts 6 Help a crook 10 Food additive 14 Kind of rocket 15 RPM dial 16 Smoke 17 Adjust the tires 18 Woodwind 19 Stretches the truth 20 Lag behind 22 Egg dish 24 Yuletide 25 Gumshoes, often 26 Skin softeners 29 Cleaved 30 Sweeping stories 31 Actress -- Delaney 32 Nail the quarterback 36 -- be an honor 37 Astronomical event 41 Stage signal 42 Offshore 44 Rand of fiction 45 Neat and smart 47 Mild expletive 49 Exploits 51 Strange truth 54 Large vases 55 Glossy paint 56 Sighed 60 Prima donna 61 Lamb's pen name 63 Eager and willing 64 Pious ending 65 Colonial dance 66 Bilko's name 67 Persist 68 Avec's opposite 69 Faked out the goalie
DOWN 1 Hurlers' stats 2 Fleece 3 Recipe direction 4 Kind of farm 5 Cobra eater 6 Coral reefs 7 Bunyan's ox 8 Author Umberto -- 9 Math statements 10 Influences 11 Deceitful cunning 12 Color of honey 13 Sleeps 21 Army off. 23 Game piece 25 Take a header 26 Darth's daughter 27 Decides 28 Lunar effect 31 Family members 33 Plays a role 34 Appealing 35 Pocket janglers 38 Yule singers 39 Wildcat 40 Caught 43 Stubborn plus 46 Bleak and forbidding 48 Summer drink 49 Wall paintings 50 Eur. country 51 Piano part 52 Feminine principle, to Jung 53 Rhapsodizes 56 Good, for Pedro 57 Yarn measure 58 Actress -- Falco 59 Did a salon job 62 Grassland