TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Bibliophile’s love 5 Boxer’s weapon 9 Fox’s prey 12 Put cargo aboard 13 Four duos 15 Patron of lost causes 16 Akron’s home 17 German white wine 18 Canal of song 19 Stretchy cord 21 Warmed up 23 Injection 25 Greenishblue color 26 Allen or Reid 29 Knocks sharply 31 Beethoven’s Third 35 Pierre’s monarch 36 Not hunched 38 Type of eclipse 39 Lodging places 41 Do gumshoe work 43 Type of wrestling 44 Demeanors 46 Monastery 48 Sugar cane product 49 Tight situation 51 It has a home page 52 That, to Jaime 53 Hoarded 55 Big -- -- elephant 57 Line of longitude 61 Desk compartment 65 Desktop picture 66 System of beliefs 68 Lacking color 69 Thick carpet 70 Toss here and there 71 Ms. Bombeck 72 End of some URLs 73 Planted, as seed 74 Layover

DOWN

1 Splotch 2 Maui neighbor 3 Valhalla host 4 Retirement plan 5 Front section 6 Berlin pronoun 7 Recipe verb 8 Doctrine 9 Injured 10 McClurg of sitcoms 11 Call for 14 Snicker (hyph.) 15 Green-eyed 20 Fictional governess 22 “Fatha” Hines 24 Wagner opus 26 Shortens a bit 27 Column type 28 Clementine’s dad 30 Injury reminders 32 Become acclimated 33 Sartre contemporary 34 Coffee shop lure 37 Knee-toankle bone 40 Winding around 42 Disappoints (2 wds.) 45 Hurried 47 Two semesters 50 Film spectaculars 54 Mini-pies 56 Neck areas 57 Odds and ends, briefly 58 Yodeler’s answer 59 Be footloose 60 Rome’s fiddler 62 Toad feature 63 Dagwood’s neighbor boy 64 Gather grain 67 Flower droplet