today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Luncheonette list

5 Spock portrayer

10 Mesh

14 Tentative project

15 Spud source

16 Where Japan is

17 Do a personnel job

18 Road shoulders

19 Mickey’s creator

20 Tightrope walker

22 Calls to mind

24 Drum sound

25 Calcutta nanny

26 Hold dear

28 Sprat

32 Dried fruit

33 Rather

34 Bad prefix

35 Tedious

36 Food-processor setting

37 Play in the kiddie pool

38 Kimono fastener

39 Gets better

40 Get going

41 Gently

43 Not pickled

44 An astringent

45 Egg layers

46 Pottery fragments

49 Excuse

52 Russell or Vonnegut

53 Not sensible

55 Put down carpet

57 Dot on the ocean

58 “The Moon Is Blue” star

59 Dublin’s land

60 Wearing boots

61 Clearing

62 Tucked in

DOWN

1 Speed meas.

2 Essay byline

3 DEA operative

4 Dead accurate

5 Snack

6 Perfect

7 Shopping plaza

8 Resistance unit

9 El Capitan locale

10 You bet! in Bonn

11 Meryl, in “Out of Africa”

12 Ill humor 13 Refreshments

21 Move like lava

23 Vessel used to display cut flowers

25 Ram, in astrology

26 Unmanned spacecraft

27 Minor quarrel (hyph.)

28 Big and strong

29 Film projection

30 Rock bottom

31 Hidden valley

32 Author’s need

33 Second thought

36 Reading

37 Internet locales

39 Had the ownership of

40 Big bell sound

42 Flitted about

43 Self-possessed

45 Made sharp

46 Snowshoes alterntative

47 Sudden silence

48 Singer — Guthrie

49 Type of bean

50 Conceited

51 Tan shade

54 Nothing at all

56 Unit of weight for nails