TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Try to understand

7 “CSI” network

10 Yin partner 14 Word of honor 15 Jackie’s second

16 Vivacity 17 Growls 18 Freedom, briefly 19 Soprano -Gluck

20 Home of Oscar the Grouch (2 wds.) 23 Pungent veggie

26 Each 27 Tears to pieces

28 -- d’oeuvres 29 EMT technique

30 Adult male 31 Crack pilot 32 Ernesto Guevara 33 Agreeing silently 37 Departed quickly

38 Rte. mappers

39 Bravo, in Spain

40 RSVP word 41 Tap dancer -- Powell 43 Airline to Malmoe 44 Pasture

45 -- Alamos, New Mexico 46 “Aye, aye” follower 47 Delts’ neighbors

48 Mr. Rathbone

51 Plains dweller

52 High fliers 53 Exhibition locales (2 wds.) 56 Do a laundry chore 57 Dune buggy kin

58 Brief sleep 62 Novelist -Grey

63 Game or season opener 64 Sufficient 65 Gazed at 66 Kitchen utensil 67 Basked

DOWN

1 Hi-fi records 2 Mr. McKellen

3 Mexican Mrs. 4 Human trunks

5 Ms. DeGeneres

6 Famous loch 7 More tranquil

8 Thorny shrub (var.) 9 Close kin 10 Accounting time (hyph.) 11 Green Mountain Boys leader 12 Specified 13 Pesky bugs 21 Seem 22 Gridiron deals 23 Chicago airport 24 Diet-food phrase (hyph.) 25 Castle or Dunne

29 Total disorder 30 Wisdom tooth 32 Cooking oil 33 More curious

34 Ait 35 Dorothy, to Em

36 Juice holder 42 Adjusted the tires

46 Seagal or Spielberg 47 Detroit cager 48 Pool-table surface 49 Clothe 50 Building block

51 Very very 52 Reeves of “Speed” 54 Reindeer herder 55 Chills the wine

59 “Sister Act” role 60 Mellow 61 Advanced degree