TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Taper

7 Triumphant cry 10 Nosegay

14 Real

15 Grass 16 Earthenware pot 17 Changes skirt length 18 Trickier

20 Like some crystal 22 Existed

23 Charlatan

26 Keogh relative 27 Chirps

28 Wept over

29 Still

30 Musical notes 31 Kind of poem 32 Plant sci.

33 Put on the block 37 None

38 Luau strummer 39 TV brand

40 Sheep call

41 CIA file

43 College degrees 44 Tackle a slope 45 Wis. neighbor 46 — Alamos 47 Stagger 48 Change a bill 51 Cereal plant spike 52 Helsinki citizens 53 Do a jig

54 Sheet material 56 Front

58 Bach instruments 62 Jetty

63 Sault — Marie 64 Egg dish 65 Weight rebate 66 Funny — Brooks 67 Conference

DOWN

1 Lemon or clunker 2 All-star hurler 3 Ultimate degree 4 Fought with swords 5 Weaker, as an excuse 6 Bride in “Lohengrin” 7 Claim

8 Civic or Accord 9 Sweet drink 10 Slowest

11 Uniform color 12 Slumber 13 Fabric measures

19 Llama cousins 21 Calorie counter 23 Palm branch

24 Kind of cassette 25 Hull parts

29 Rube

30 “Star Wars” director 32 Contractor

33 Where roses climb 34 Peer Gynt creator 35 Like some chests 36 Catches red-handed 42 Open

46 Mountain flower 47 Look-alike

48 Modify 49 Enthusiasm, plus 50 Put in the ledger 51 Steal the scene 52 Terra — 55 Downtown Chicago 57 Tenet

59 Completely 60 Society column word 61 Farm shelter