TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Tibetan monk

5 Bumpkin

9 Page or LuPone

14 Oodles (2 wds.)

15 Valhalla host

16 Leek cousin

17 Hairdo feature

18 Get new wallpaper

19 Bowling alleys have them

20 “My Way” crooner

22 Hull filler

24 Dish with beans

26 Co. honcho

27 Added coal

30 Swimming hazard

35 Coke rival

36 Bennett or Baez

37 Munro’s pen name

38 High dudgeon

39 Adjust the tires

42 Touch of frost

43 Messes up

45 Mini-container

46 Typewriter type

48 Safety device (2 wds.)

50 Makes happen

51 Organ of hearing

52 Sultans’ cousins

54 General pardon

58 Rapturous delight

62 Money

63 Poker stake

65 Humorist -- Bombeck

66 Discussion group

67 Last a long time

68 Enlist again (hyph.)

69 Horse’s sound

70 Frequent recital offering

71 Slumps

DOWN

1 Racing circuits

2 Asian mountains

3 New day, briefly

4 Offensive maneuvers

5 Terrible 6 Optimal

7 England’s FBI

8 Door opener

9 What bees spread

10 Similar entities

11 Singer/ dancer --

Turner

12 “Little piggies”

13 Scholarly org.

21 Not our

23 Breezing through

25 Pinpoint

27 Catches sight of

28 Land, to Pierre

29 Soap

-31 Comet feature

32 Rajahs’ wives

33 Go fly -- --!

34 Egads! 36 Jug or slammer

40 Turn inside out

41 Draws close

44 Pittsburgh NFLER

47 Sheens

49 Igneous rock

50 Roman statesman

53 Copper or tin

54 Elec. units

55 Complain

56 Forbidden thing (hyph.)

57 Veers

59 Expanse

60 Quite pleased with oneself

61 Puppy cries

64 Prefix for “classic”