TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pasture plaints

5 Put under the mattress, perhaps

9 Cakelike cookie

12 Lean against 13 Platitude

15 Folk wisdom

16 Coolidge or Gam

17 Rock climber’s device

18 Feedbag morsels

19 “Quo Vadis” co-star

20 “The Raven” poet

21 Need for water

23 Confidential

25 Potatoes partner

26 Term of endearment

27 Most succinct

30 Beseeches

33 Stay near the shore

34 Tiers

36 Uris novel “The —”

37 Guacamole base 40 Personal history

41 Heck!

43 Wanted GI

44 Tidies up

46 Expels air

48 Wernher — Braun

49 Untamed

50 Black-footed critter

53 Feast

56 Baby fox

57 Sunburn remedy

59 Co. honcho

60 Boor

62 Sell

63 Blushing

64 Trunk contents

65 Tennyson heroine

66 Fr. holy woman

67 Puts a stop to

68 Frilly

DOWN

1 Currency replaced by the euro

2 Drama awards 3 Bizarre

4 Stiff

5 Take place

6 Foolish person 7 Calendar info

8 I, to Claudius

9 Male raccoon

10 The A in BA

11 Sack out

14 Went inside

15 Dillydally

22 Possesses

24 Diva — Ponselle

25 Award for valor

27 Tortilla treats

28 Expresses grief

29 Annoying person

30 Prof’s degree

31 Less cooked than medium

32 Comet rival

33 Dazzled

35 Distress signal

38 Where streams flow

39 Smell

42 Strike with something flat

45 Come apart

47 Feel under par

48 Nixes

50 Oslo sight (var.)

51 Ms. Verdugo

52 Old-fashioned remedy

53 Gym counts

54 Toll-booth site

55 Mr. Roddenberry

56 Mongol ruler

58 Whirling water

61 Chest-beater