TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tend toward

6 Black hole, once 10 Tot’s wheels

14 Dull green

15 Specify

16 Part to be played 17 Inventor of dynamite 18 Tel —

19 War god

20 Even smaller 22 Simple tunes 24 Mouse cousin 26 Type of sausage 27 Withholds

31 Denims

33 Begins admitting customers

34 Bellow

35 Clock sound 39 Perjured

40 Cabbies

41 Blissful spot 42 Neutral shade 43 Chooses

44 Tenet

45 Grove 47 Reddish-brown 48 Range of influence 51 Wears

53 Shiver

55 Dancer Fred — 60 Peeve

61 Movie theater sign 63 Of yore

64 Right on!

65 Parched

66 Tibet’s — Lama 67 Breathe hard

68 Kind of tissue 69 Bond-buyer’s concern

DOWN

1 Type choice 2 Healing plant 3 Intuition

4 Part of the range 5 Experiences once more

6 Canine warning 7 Hebrew letter after shin

8 At the center of 9 Old plays, restaged 10 Some marchers 11 “The Kiss” sculptor 12 Strange

13 High-IQ group 21 Daughter of Hyperion 23 Metal in bronze 25 Released a CD 27 Handout 28 Spectacular

29 — -do-well 30 Incentive

32 Antlered animals 34 Barks shrilly

36 Bad day for Caesar 37 Grant

38 Nautical mile 40 Despairing 44 Guardianship 46 Moon or sun

47 ER staffers 48 Seat-belt feature 49 — donna

50 Trojan War cause 52 Cowboy flick

54 Suit, so to speak 56 Asian mountains 57 Doing nothing 58 Actual

59 Writer — Bagnold 62 Lyrical Gershwin