HAPPY HOLIDAYS

ACROSS

1. Shapeless form

5. Hot springs resort

8. Not square

11. Private theater box

12. Relating to ear

13. Rome’s Colosseum, e.g.

15. I ____ you so!

16. *The opposite of a store the day before Christmas?

17. *”Auld Lang Syne” poet

18. *Partridge’s perch (2 words)

20. Vegas numbers

21. New Zealand’s indigenous people

22. Fuss

23. Tabby’s favorite herb

26. More so than swell

30. Big-headedness

31. Resembling an ape

34. John Wayne Gacy’s ____ the Clown

35. Photographer Dorothea of “Migrant Mother” fame

37. Type or kind

38. Like a sheep after a haircut

39. D’Artagnan’s weapon of choice

40. Superlative of #33 Down

42. U.S. central bank

43. Wilma and Fred’s hometown

45. *Latke’s main ingredient

47. Word of possibility

48. Turning token taker

50. Exclamation of sorrow

52. *____ Odbody of “It’s a Wonderful Life”

55. Raspberry drupelets

56. Saintly glow

57. Letter opener

59. Hunts for food

60. Banana leftover

61. Guesstimate phrase

62. *Color on a Kwanzaa flag

63. Not divisible by two

64. Scholarship criterion

DOWN

1. Deli acronym

2. Chicago’s central district, with The

3. Gawk at

4. Wish harm upon, arch.

5. One of The Beatles

6. Pileus, pl.

7. “The Road Runner” corporation

8. Group of cows

9. Bed-and-breakfast alternative, pl.

10. *”The Nutcracker” step

12. Certain cephalopod, pl.

13. It’s sometimes humble

14. *Chuck Berry’s “Run, ____, Run”

19. Reason to strike

22. Grass bristle

23. Famous one, slangily

24. Open-mouthed

25. Like a well-defined muscle

26. Hot alcoholic beverage

27. Washing sponge

28. Type of heron

29. Rondeau, alt. sp.

32. *Santa’s beverage of choice

33. Not well

36. *Original home of Christmas tannenbaum

38. Fur shawl

40. Extremely unfriendly

41. Plane trick

44. Reprieve in a desert

46. Muscle to bone connector

48. Skidded

49. Weighed

50. 4,840 square yards

51. Told an untruth

52. Head of family

53. Wrap in waxy cloth

54. Comfort

55. Financing acronym

58. Stewart of “Maggie May” fame