Crossword Puzzle
Let’s Kibitz About Kibbutzim
1. Qatar's capital
5. Give up, as territory
9. Garden-centric kibbutz on the Dead Sea
16. Greek god of love
17. Fertilizer component
18. Caught some z's
19. What "kibbutz" literally means
21. Vacations in Winnebagos
22. Egypt's Sadat
23. ___-de-sac
24. Nabisco cookies
25. Lake of Botswana
26. Where David Ben-Gurion moved in 1953
29. "Able was ___..."
30. Enemy
31. ___ code
32. "I" problem
35. Balaam's mount
36. Rubbish receptacle
37. It's home to Gan Garoo, the Australian Zoo
39. ___ Aviv
40. "April Love" composer Sammy
42. Secret agent
43. Its name translates to "Ghetto Fighters"
48. ___ lox
49. 1957 Nabokov novel
50. "___, humbug!"
51. Dashing through the snow race
54. Legendary insult comic ___ Rickles
55. "No sirree"
58. Four poster, e.g.
59. Nervous twitches
60. Kick the ___
61. Cram, with "up"
62. Onetime symbol of the kibbutz movement that voted to privatize in 2009
64. Singer Lopez
65. Belarus's capital
67. "___ tree falls..."
68. Speed reader?
69. Its most famous temporary resident was Sacha Baron Cohen, with Rosh
71. "Village" named for the founder of Hadassah
73. Canadian Prime Minister Justin
74. Architect Saarinen
75. First-floor apartment
76. Lab tube
77. Abbr. after many a general's name
78. Gang follower
1. "A" place known as the "mother of kibbutzim"
2. Fruit grown on many kibbutzim
3. Active military conflicts
4. "Ain't That ___" (Domino tune)
5. Dirty dog
6. Norse explorer
7. Strip, as bark off trees
8. Quarter back?
9. Red blood cell test: abbr.
10. One praying, at times
11. Like many nightstand books
12. Successful bull
13. Pinza of "South Pacific"
14. Bank acct. additions
15. Driver's lic. and others
20. "___ tu" (Verdi aria)
27. Reject author Fleming
28. Gasket
30. Movie
32. Sautéing acronym, à la Rachael Ray
33. Coated with gold
34. "___ to Billie Joe"
36. ___ Arthur, a "Golden" Dorothy
38. Asian nurse
39. "___ does it!"
40. ___ needle in a haystack
41. Yellowfin tuna
43. Bank deposit
44. Roman poet banished by Augustus
45. Distinctive time period
46. Black, in poetry
47. Browning work?
48. Bird's beak
52. Start of an Ella Fitzgerald standard
53. Kid who plays a lot of hockey
54. Duchamp works
55. "Yes you do!" rebuttal
56. "General Hospital" actress
57. More bizarre
60. Break fluid?
61. Longest river in Texas
62. "Erec et ___," Chrétien de Troyes tale
63. Picard's second-in-command
64. ___-80 (old computer)
65. French husband
66. ___ to one's ears
69. 5-__ (serotonin-producing drug)
70. Poet Hartmann von ___
72. Serling who said "Your next stop, The Twilight Zone"
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