TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Health food 5 Fine violin, briefly

10 Turn pancakes 14 Dreadful 15 Dish with beans 16 Starlet’s dream 17 Revise 18 Sits on the throne 19 Inquires 20 Equinox mo.

21 Search engine find 22 Most demure

24 Test tube locales, briefly 26 Sanskrit dialect 27 Hoopsters 30 Complexity 34 Words to the audience 35 Rubberstamp word 36 Got taller 37 Ernst & Young staffer 38 Leaning on 41 Before marriage 42 Take care of

44 Scholarly org. 45 Tolerate 47 Huge information gateway 49 Clergy member 50 Winter warmers 51 Warty critter 52 Surroundings

55 “Most Wanted” org. 56 Profound 60 Valhalla host 61 Medium crimson 63 Out of work 64 Isolated 65 Was sincere

66 Buzz’s capsule-mate 67 Wapitis 68 Oxen joiners

69 Tiny insect

DOWN

1 Lyric poems 2 White House staffer 3 Journey 4 Paid up 5 Uses steel wool

6 One before Fri.

7 Lunar valley 8 Dark brew 9 Tosses out 10 Wearing out

11 Suffer defeat

12 Genres 13 Housefly or ant 23 Vintage 25 Square footage

26 Do watercolors

27 Spiny plants 28 Rockies resort 29 Ferber novel

30 Raise, as a sail 31 “Sesame Street” regular 32 Tennis rankings 33 Candied 35 Wind indicators

39 Cardmatching game (2 wds.) 40 Fictional plantation 43 Gives the meaning of 46 Making an offer

48 Street in Paris

49 Pencil ends 51 Juicy steak (hyph.) 52 Strong digger

53 Adored one

54 Connect up 55 Verbal abuse

57 Idyllic spot 58 Charles Lamb 59 Throw snowballs at 62 Fair-hiring letters