TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Unisex garment 5 Pillow filler

9 Excuse

14 Run in neutral 15 Grease gun target 16 Kind of point

17 Form droplets 18 Commend highly 19 Pierre’s brother 20 Led on

22 Wants badly

24 Movie with a posse 26 Meyers of

“Kate & Allie” 27 Happens

30 Makes larger 35 Action flick must 36 Meter maid of song 37 Carnaby Street locale 38 Holed up

39 Merchant ships 42 Chess pieces 43 Neutral shade 45 Rainbow goddess 46 Coronet

48 Radiation measure 50 UPS customer 51 Garden-pond fish 52 Pastes

54 Even as we speak 58 Placate

62 Derrick arms 63 Old Dodge model 65 Impoverish

66 Not relevant 67 Astute

68 Garr of “Tootsie” 69 Backpackers’ gear 70 “Anything —?” 71 Malamute’s load

DOWN

1 Intuition

2 Blissful spot 3 Shutter part 4 Beyond boring 5 Diamond sides 6 Water or rust

7 PC key

8 Assemble 9 Maintain as true 10 Thames trucks 11 Freezes over

12 SF transit system 13 Monsieur’s islands 21 Shift-6 23 Helga’s hubby 25 Viking pursuit 27 Yellow pigment 28 Boy from Baja 29 Tight-knit team 31 Navajo foes 32 Herd follower 33 Yonder

34 Bat’s navigational system 36 Steakhouse order

40 Unbending 41 Expensive

44 Sloppy

47 Fliers

49 Host’s proposals 50 Prone’s opposite 53 Rustic roads

54 Not much (2 wds.) 55 Unfrequented 56 Horse color

57 Blouse part

59 Ayla’s creator Jean — 60 Royal honorific 61 Writer — Bagnold 64 “Mad Max” Gibson