THEME: FOOTBALL
ACROSS
1. Figure of speech
6. School org.
9. *Where official places football after a play
13. *Often twirled at football games
14. Nocturnal flyer
15. Ma Bell, e.g.
16. Artificial leg
17. Also
18. Neptune's realm
19. *Team with most NFL championships
21. *_______ league
23. "___ you sure?"
24. Dateless
25. David Alan Grier's initials
28. "I ____ the sheriff..."
30. Uproar
35. The Colosseum today, e.g.
37. Mimicked
39. Inspiration for poets and musicians
40. Oscar winner and directed by Ben Affleck
41. Donkey in Latin America
43. All over
44. Animals of a particular region
46. *Football center move
47. Viscount's superior
48. Start a golf hole
50. *BYU Cougars' home state
52. Fleur-de-___
53. Soap bubbles
55. Not decaf.
57. *Princeton opponent in what is considered first college game
61. Caribbean Sea island country
65. Finno-_____ language
66. Club on a card, e.g.
68. *Home to the Dolphins
69. Michael Moore's hometown
70. Pitcher's stat
71. Painter _____ Degas
72. Ficus tree fruit, pl.
73. A Bobbsey twin
74. Swarms
DOWN
1. Recipe abbreviation
2. Pro ____
3. Ear-related
4. "Roll Out the Barrel" dance
5. Comes in
6. Used for stewing, pl.
7. *Sometimes a team goes for this after a TD
8. High up
9. Religious offshoot
10. Legal action
11. South American wood sorrels
12. *____ Romo
15. *Part of a football cleat
20. *What players do to help fix injured joint or limb
22. "I see!"
24. Chest bone
25. *It includes 7 rounds
26. Saintly glow, pl.
27. Jig, in France
29. "Moonlight Sonata," e.g.
31. Highlands hillside
32. Trite or hackneyed
33. Wombs
34. *Sugar and Orange, e.g.
36. Not to be done, especially for a baby
38. Exclamation of annoyance
42. Style of abstractionism popular in 1960s
45. Change
49. In favor of
51. *Concussion preventer
54. Colorado resort
56. Seeing eye dog, e.g.
57. Queen Elizabeth I's neckwear
58. Tangerine grapefruit hybrid
59. Type of math
60. Tanqueray and Bombay Sapphire, e.g.
61. Extended time period
62. "Leaving Las Vegas" Oscar winner
63. Prayer leader in mosque
64. Manners intended to impress
67. A retirement plan
General News on 08/27/2014