CROSSWORD FOR WEDNESDAY

ACROSS

1 Unisex garment 5 Pillow filler 9 Excuse 14 Run in neutral 15 Grease gun target 16 Kind of point 17 Form droplets 18 Commend highly 19 Pierre’s brother 20 Led on 22 Wants badly 24 Movie with a posse 26 Meyers of “Kate & Allie” 27 Happens 30 Makes larger 35 Action flick must 36 Meter maid of song 37 Carnaby Street locale 38 Holed up 39 Merchant ships 42 Chess pieces 43 Neutral shade 45 Rainbow goddess 46 Coronet 48 Radiation measure 50 UPS customer 51 Garden-pond fish 52 Pastes 54 Even as we speak 58 Placate 62 Derrick arms 63 Old Dodge model 65 Impoverish 66 Not relevant 67 Astute 68 Garr of “Tootsie” 69 Backpackers’ gear 70 “Anything —?” 71 Malamute’s load

DOWN

1 Intuition 2 Blissful spot 3 Shutter part 4 Beyond boring 5 Diamond sides 6 Water or rust 7 PC key 8 Assemble 9 Maintain as true 10 Thames trucks 11 Freezes over 12 SF transit system 13 Monsieur’s islands 21 Shift-6 23 Helga’s hubby 25 Viking pursuit 27 Yellow pigment 28 Boy from Baja 29 Tight-knit team 31 Navajo foes 32 Herd follower 33 Yonder 34 Bat’s navigational system 36 Steakhouse order 40 Unbending 41 Expensive 44 Sloppy 47 Fliers 49 Host’s proposals 50 Prone’s opposite 53 Rustic roads 54 Not much (2 wds.) 55 Unfrequented 56 Horse color 57 Blouse part 59 Ayla’s creator Jean — 60 Royal honorific 61 Writer — Bagnold 64 “Mad Max” Gibson