TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pharaoh’s amulet

7 Took a load off

10 Like a pancake

14 End a layoff

15 Embers, finally

16 Unduly hasty

17 Lathered up

18 Hag’s cry

19 Comic-strip dog

20 Made the grade (2 wds.)

23 Canape toppers

26 Stout

27 Bow opposite

28 Between

29 Operate a ferry

30 Rightful

31 Consumer org.

32 Halloween shout

33 Calcifies

37 Aloha token

38 Purchase

39 Jungfrau, e.g.

40 Near empty

41 Apollo’s priestesses

43 Rustic parents

44 Compete for 45 Above, in verse

46 Ms. MacGraw of films

47 Simpson kid

48 Muppet grouch

51 Sooner than

52 Plagued by

53 Early birds?

56 Hurlers’ stats

57 Tony-winner — Hagen

58 Feudal tenant

62 Artifice

63 Sz. option

64 Beethoven’s Third

65 Famous last word

66 Before, in combos

67 Had a feeling

DOWN

1 Almost grads

2 Mgmt. biggie

3 Just as I thought!

4 Split

5 Geometry answers 6 River bottoms

7 Without risk

8 All kidding —

9 Those folks

10 Iced 11 Starbucks order

12 Showy flower

13 Prickle

21 Drawing rooms

22 Seizes the throne

23 Cellist — Casals

24 The color of honey

25 Leg bone

29 Might

30 — Lama

32 Ravel classic

33 Vacillating Dane

34 “The King”

35 Ear pollution

36 Skin coolant

42 Make rough 46 Pinball palace

47 Learning experience

48 Wagner opus

49 Play guitar

50 — and desist

51 Either Sprat

52 Boombox sound

54 Landfill

55 Jacques — Cousteau

59 Family mem.

60 Excellent

61 Fictional collie