ACROSS

1 American sign language
4 Seat
9 Kitten
14 Downwind
15 Indian horse
16 City
17 Hold
18 Blemished
19 Belly button
20 Tails
22 Glue
24 Ram’s mate
25 Alien’s spaceship
27 Evergreen tree
29 Believers in reincarnation
32 Murderer
35 Foreign Agricultural Service
36 Metal tip on the end of a lance
38 Group of conspirators
40 Want
42 Hearkens
44 What a leaf comes from
45 Affirmative noise
47 Become active
49 Pester
50 French Painter, “Sunday Afternoon.”
52 One who dies for a cause
54 Jitney
55 Grain
56 Kitten
59 Squares and circles, for example
63 Great
67 Accept
69 Hints
71 Be
72 Synthetic fabric
73 Upper body
74 Cake or Bread ___
75 Fix firmly
76 Commercials
77 Picnic visitor

DOWN

1 Healing plant
2 Stitched
3 Loan
4 Certified public accountant
5 Hiccup
6 Green Gables dweller
7 Object
8 Traveled by car
9 ___ Sunfire
10 United States
11 Scrimp
12 Alter
13 Harvard’s rival
21 Heat giver
23 Football assoc.
26 Food and drug administration (abbr.)
28 Baseball’s Nolan
29 Head growth
30 Supply
31 Partly frozen rain
32 Thrum
33 Type of wood
34 Measuring instrument
35 Madagascar franc (abbr.)
37 Serving of corn
39 Limb
41 Rebuff
43 Scantiest
46 Confided in
48 Strive
51 Tree
53 Ball holder
56 Cut the peel off
57 Cheese
58 Burial chamber
60 Parts of plays
61 Drop heavily
62 European monetary unit
64 Pop
65 Asian country
66 Coin
68 Desert
70 Distress call