TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dotty

5 Applied henna 9 Cookie or candy 14 Very light brown color 15 Jungle warning 16 Jazzman — Blake 17 Vivacity

18 Slimy vegetable 19 Ring-shaped island 20 Commonplace 22 Weightlifter’s apparatus

24 Cattails

26 Princess Di’s niece 27 Gets the news 29 Joker (2 wds.) 34 Coke rival 35 Disappear gradually 36 “Fish Magic” artist 37 Badges 38 Knickknack stand 41 Card-game cry 42 Psyche components 44 Manipulates fraudulently 45 Ghostly noises 47 Florida tribe 49 Licentious fellows 50 New Year in Hanoi 51 Wardens’ fear 53 Sketchiest

57 Calorie counters 61 Greek epic

62 Not fake

64 Livy’s “it was” 65 Ala—

66 Aspirin target 67 Moreno or Rudner 68 Wrapped up 69 Prevailing emotional tone 70 Picket-line crosser

DOWN

1 Consider 2 Freedom org. 3 Kukla’s friend 4 Frozen plains 5 Hums

6 Linked

7 Maize unit 8 Lackluster 9 Equipped 10 Crocodile Dundee locale 11 Woodwind 12 Sour pickle

13 Shout

21 Condor’s abode 23 More skillful

25 Strut

27 Line of bushes

28 — Downs (racetrack) 30 Fateful date

31 Pond scum

32 Bridle parts 33 Studies

34 Bakery items

35 Conk out

39 Fast gaits

40 Ham it up

43 Place

46 Expulsions

48 Lacked

49 Muddied the waters 52 NW state

53 Bad habit 54 Politician — Cranston 55 Encircle

56 Bloke’s streetcar 58 Ambler or Clapton 59 Pro — (in proportion) 60 Iffy attempt

63 “The Name of the

Rose” author