TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Noisy fight

6 Urban transport 10 Autograph site

14 Pie chart lines 15 Sword handle

16 Palo —, California 17 “South Pacific”

Frenchman

18 Lotion ingredient 19 Circus animal

20 Still snoozing 21 Collection of various

items

23 Skeptic

25 Lulls

26 Airport code for

O’hare

27 Sugar crop 29 Buddhism’s — Lama 32 Intersect

33 Frat letter 36 Exploiter 37 Deceptive

maneuver

38 Ball club

39 Codgers’ queries 40 Takes cover

41 Mild, as weather 42 More exposed 43 Rand of “Atlas

Shrugged”

44 Dirty politics

47 Crept

51 Lacking in

decisiveness (hyph.) 54 Big blow

55 James of Jazz 56 Reed instrument 57 Promotion basis 58 Polite cough 59 Earthenware pot 60 Spout rhetoric 61 Prefix for “trillion” 62 Fawn or doe

63 Fall flower

DOWN

1 Loaf

2 Stallone tough guy 3 “Bye!”

4 Tusked critter

(2 wds.) 5 Whopper

6 Seat

7 Has a fever 8 Coalition

9 Most expensive 10 Thickened skin 11 Alternate name 12 Cherry center 13 Theater awards 21 Glove sz.

22 Back muscles

24 Half of “hexa-” 27 Bramble

28 Time periods 29 Rightful

30 Wood residue 31 French article

32 Yield by treaty 33 Scaleless fish 34 Woolen cap

35 A Little Woman 37 Stove fuel

38 Pretty songbirds 40 Vague

41 Casual farewell 42 Nassau’s island group 43 Whichever 44 Nature’s coolant 45 Agile

46 Organic compound 47 Get wool from sheep 48 Jeweler’s unit

49 High society 50 Hinder

52 Competent

53 Shoe part or fish 57 Extinct bird