Organ Transplant Crossword
The words in the circles have been swapped, transplanted if you will — the clues suggest the original words, but you have to switch the circled letters to complete the puzzle (25 across and 34 down, 5 down and 27 down).
ACROSS
1. A dryer sacrifice
5. Essential for the rain
10. Sunday before Easter
14. What you might ask a loved one to take
15. Friends who met online
16. “Der Hölle Rache” or “Nessun Dorma”
17. “On the double”
18. Pelvic exercises
19. Dad
20. What might elevate a Brit
21. “All ____ it should be”
22. What a drummer keeps
23. New York City time zone
24. Where a bear might live
25. Thin shard, especially of wood
26. Shock
28. A popular 1960s dance move/song
30. Hard to get to
32. Joplin genre
33. Exclusively
37. Tehran
38. Long for
40. ____ on a loom
41. Companion of pots
42. Ford Transit or Toyota Sienna
43. Pilot Earhart
45. Those who verify ages, maybe
47. Bones of the ankle
48. Many a murder mystery locale
51. Conspiracy
53. River in southeast of France
56. Building material made from mud, straw, grass
57. Controversial apple tree pesticide
58. ___ mortals
59. To look through, as a book
60. Taxonomologically puzzling creature native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
61. Human metabolic waste product high in Nitrogen
62. Water in Bolivia
63. Instruction, with lather
64. Dispatch
65. Spotted
66. Poker beginnings
67. Ash or TV
DOWN
1. Notable Osiris possession
2. Desert haven
3. Builder
4. Held
5. What a precious metals investor might do.
6. Corpulent
7. Surgical procedure first performed by Joseph E. Murray
8. Foot digits
9. SpaceX competitor
10. Bounty or Brawny
11. Smell
12. Painter Filippo
13. One who works with stone
22. Conan network
24. Sound of Music country code
25. Those who sign treaties
27. Common chili ingredient
29. National confrontation
30. Tombstone headline
31. Epoch
34. Something trivially easy
35. 2022 Super Bowl
36. “Sure”
39. Organ with the body’s smallest bones
44. Thing that might welcome
46. Female deer
48. Plural of 19 Across
49. A proverb or saying
50. Wild
52. Momentary shortcoming
54. Star Trek Episode with “Gorn”
55. Prepared
57. ____ to; similar
58. Has to
60. Latin for “mouths”