TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Greenhouse purchase 4 Latin dance 9 Grooms poodles 14 Thurman of “Gattaca” 15 Recurrently 16 Asian capital 17 Ridiculed 19 Leading man 20 Bundle of grain 21 Verne’s skipper 23 Codgers’ queries 24 From Asia 27 Lustrous fabric 29 Crowd in 31 Spotted horses 34 Squeakers 37 Pencil end 39 “Alfie” star 40 Fragrance 41 Gulf nation 43 Verb preceder 44 Thinks ahead 46 Markdown 47 Part of MIT 48 Finest quality 50 Play a guitar 52 Perfect 54 Musical compositions 58 Scribble down 60 Lunchtime 62 Stone pillar 63 Skip a syllable 65 Victor 68 Knock for a loop 69 Romance, on the Seine 70 Navajo handiwork 71 Imagine 72 Sandbags, maybe 73 Juice-based drink

DOWN

1 Nurse’s concern 2 Plains tribe 3 Makes docile 4 Subcontractor 5 Enigmatic sighting 6 Geog. feature 7 “I’ve — had!” 8 Inca territory 9 In an uproar 10 Shellac resin 11 Aim 12 Bear of little brain 13 Knights of the realm 18 Like damask 22 Glove compartment item 25 Optimistic 26 Short letters 28 Like a rock 30 Wild cats 32 Burden 33 Dispatched 34 Utility closet items 35 Doing plenty of nothing 36 Alliance 38 Encircling strips 42 Ruler before Galba 45 Landscape 49 “— Te Ching” 51 Wavering 53 Not an express 55 Land, to Caesar 56 Spoken 57 Twilled fabric 58 Mutt’s crony 59 Highly spiced stew 61 1899 gold rush town 64 Medico 66 Calendar abbr. 67 Montreal’s prov.