TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Quick to learn

4 Low scores 9 Alternative to plastic 13 Word to a mule 14 Sound off

15 New York’s — Island 16 Mysterious

18 Cast a vote

19 Wing it (hyph.) 20 Headlong flight 22 Dawdles

25 Type of wrestling 26 Bounds

28 Ship’s kitchen 32 Heats in the

microwave 35 Diamond, slangily 37 Easily conned 38 Spleen

39 Chanted

41 Fix a seam 42 Implore

44 Drove over the limit 45 Lounges

46 Join, as metal 48 Psyched up 50 Toronto Blue — 52 Refusals

56 Having a pleasant odor 60 Ouija alternative 61 Inbox filler

62 Start

65 Dingbat

66 Angler’s boot

67 Plant sticker

68 Natural resources 69 Heavy rainfall 70 Common ID

DOWN

1 Toward the future 2 Bamboo eater 3 Diagonal pattern 4 Automaton 5 Baseball stat 6 Wharf denizen 7 Singer — Redding 8 Minority groups 9 “The Godfather” director

10 — up (pay) 11 Kind of pearl 12 Jekyll’s other half 15 Order

17 Fish organs 21 Leo mo.

23 Make a salary 24 Catches sight of 27 Extent

29 Sax-playing Simpson 30 Happily — after 31 Evergreens 32 Fastens a parka 33 Guthrie of

folk music

34 Rind

36 Work, as clay 39 Perfectly 40 Perimeter

43 Borders on 45 Mulroney of Canada 47 Deli bread

49 Whole

51 Winter storms 53 Swift horses

54 Yoga position 55 Grim

56 Gambler’s town 57 Sultan’s cousin 58 Hamlet or Ophelia 59 Golf course hazard 63 Spud st.

64 Hear clearly