TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ancient tales

6 Date with a doc

10 Ear cleaner

14 Lofty abode 15 Develop, as a storm 16 Kinks’ 1970 tune 17 Singer — Abdul 18 H.H. Munro’s pen name

19 WWW addresses 20 Beach finds

22 Sugar cane product 24 Adherent

26 Balmy temperature 27 Hot pepper

31 Dude

32 Moving right — 33 Nouveau —

36 IRS form expert 39 Nurse’s beat 40 Cravat cousin

41 More

42 NNW opposite 43 Arduous journeys 44 Asimov genre (hyph.) 45 Mex. Mrs.

46 Warns (2 wds.) 48 Plunges 51 B’way posting, once 52 Large banana 54 Handles dough 59 Kind of chop

60 Get better

62 Where Damascus is 63 Give the eye 64 People devourer 65 Easy-to-find constellation 66 Furtive whisper 67 Minority group 68 Parents

DOWN

1 Travel guides 2 Uh-huh

3 Actual

4 Upgrade 5 Closing tight 6 Pecs’ partners 7 Wheels for nanny 8 Tea variety

9 Dusk 10 Half-frozen

11 — case scenario 12 Kind of cat 13 Freshwater catch 21 9-digit ID 23 Malaria symptom 25 Succinct

27 Harsh calls 28 Woe is me! 29 Good old days 30 Finish

34 Gross! 35 Overhead

36 Ad award

37 Wisp of smoke 38 Get real! (2 wds.) 40 Wyoming tribe 41 Hackers’

machines 43 Easy gait 44 Supporter 45 14-line poem 47 Tick off

48 Plugs away 49 Keens

50 Attack on a castle 52 Drop heavily 53 Anti-drug cop 55 Bronte orphan 56 Verdi number 57 Prada rival 58 Without, to Pierre 61 Endorse