TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Insect stage 6 Bunch of flowers

10 Cup edges 14 Do the trick 15 Decide, as a jury

16 Singer -Falana 17 Halifax’s province (2 wds.) 19 Quark’s place

20 Flight dir. 21 V.T. Hamlin’s Alley -22 Type of mammal 24 Ground grain 26 Elegant accessory 27 Neither good nor bad 30 Disturbed 34 Godzilla’s land

35 Choral section

36 Lassie 38 Picnic intruders 39 Athens resident 40 Auel heroine

41 Noon on a sundial 42 Causes distress

43 Uttered in a shrill tone 44 Circus performer 46 Debutante’s bow 47 Scepter’s go-with 48 Pauses 50 Unpredictable 54 Jungfrau or Eiger

55 Use a remote

58 Very bad end 59 Flexibility 62 Vaulted recess

63 Pout 64 Cafe customer 65 Hoover Dam lake 66 Hot drinks 67 Boars and sows

DOWN

1 Highway division 2 Cosmetics brand 3 Rhapsodize 4 Itinerary word

5 Loser (hyph.)

6 Stage accessories

7 No longer fashionable 8 Slight error 9 Annual 10 Andes ruminants 11 Modicum 12 Conspiracy 13 Identical 18 Roll of stamps 23 Debt memos

24 Pate de foie -25 Natural gifts 27 Warrior at Troy 28 Enthusiasm, plus 29 Eye nerve 31 Motorist nos.

32 Sphinx locale 33 Broad valleys 35 Soprano’s piece 37 Woman 39 Most talkative 40 Televises 42 Any -- in a storm

43 Little dogs 45 Prowled 46 Young horse

49 Small jobs 50 Hard, yellow cheese coated with red wax 51 Hemp product 52 Santa --, California 53 Treasurehunt aid 55 Tubular pasta

56 Ra’s symbol 57 Fiery stack 60 Chicken --king 61 Crow’s cry