TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Groom’s attendant 6 Lintel companion 10 Bandleader -- Kenton 14 Cereal box remnant 15 Pointed arch

16 Sacred language 17 Bucket of song

18 Sudden dash 19 Flapjack franchise 20 Garbo’s homeland 22 Stunning 24 Armed conflict

26 Put up boards 27 “Open sesame” guy (2 wds.)

31 Cen. fractions

32 Jury 33 Veered 36 Sitcom ET 39 Actress -Falco

40 Held one’s own

41 Canal of song 42 Solidified 43 Rule 44 Green Mountain Boys leader 45 Fizzy drink 46 Questionable 48 Habituated 51 Slalom gear 52 Haughty 54 Go by 59 Blarney stone site 60 Sheik colleague

62 Wed impulsively 63 “So what -is new?” 64 Lhasa -65 Twangy 66 Blended whiskeys 67 Meg or Nolan

68 Big pitchers

DOWN

1 Alien spacecrafts

2 Popular side dish

3 Ocean fish 4 Just scraped by

5 Extension 6 Chore 7 Enthralled 8 Summer fruit, perhaps 9 Doublecrossed

10 Hard sells, maybe 11 Nevada lake 12 Not in a whisper 13 Pinches off 21 Apprehend a suspect 23 Surround 25 Polyester partner 27 Hairy animals

28 Do dock work 29 Rolling --(rich) 30 Nectar gatherer 34 Military address

35 Makes one’s way 36 Guthrie of folk music 37 “Instead of” word 38 Swampy areas

40 1991 De Niro-nolte film (2 wds.) 41 Yalie 43 Kind of oil or syrup 44 Early Texas cattle town 45 Thick liquids

47 Luau instrument

48 In a cold manner 49 Vikings 50 Short and stout 52 Crystal gazer 53 “Mona --” 55 -- -- unto itself 56 Work as a model 57 Train for boxing 58 Morays 61 Actor -Perlman