CROSSWORD FOR FRIDAY

ACROSS

1 Pharaoh’s amulet 7 Took a load off 10 Like a pancake 14 End a layoff 15 Embers, finally 16 Unduly hasty 17 Lathered up 18 Hag’s cry 19 Comic-strip dog 20 Made the grade (2 wds.) 23 Canape toppers 26 Stout 27 Bow opposite 28 Between 29 Operate a ferry 30 Rightful 31 Consumer org. 32 Halloween shout 33 Calcifies 37 Aloha token 38 Purchase 39 Jungfrau, e.g. 40 Near empty 41 Apollo’s priestesses 43 Rustic parents 44 Compete for 45 Above, in verse 46 Ms. MacGraw of films 47 Simpson kid 48 Muppet grouch 51 Sooner than 52 Plagued by 53 Early birds? 56 Hurlers’ stats 57 Tony-winner — Hagen 58 Feudal tenant 62 Artifice 63 Sz. option 64 Beethoven’s Third 65 Famous last word 66 Before, in combos 67 Had a feeling

DOWN

1 Almost grads 2 Mgmt. biggie 3 Just as I thought! 4 Split 5 Geometry answers 6 River bottoms 7 Without risk 8 All kidding — 9 Those folks 10 Iced 11 Starbucks order 12 Showy flower 13 Prickle 21 Drawing rooms 22 Seizes the throne 23 Cellist — Casals 24 The color of honey 25 Leg bone 29 Might 30 — Lama 32 Ravel classic 33 Vacillating Dane 34 “The King” 35 Ear pollution 36 Skin coolant 42 Make rough 46 Pinball palace 47 Learning experience 48 Wagner opus 49 Play guitar 50 — and desist 51 Either Sprat 52 Boombox sound 54 Landfill 55 Jacques — Cousteau 59 Family mem. 60 Excellent 61 Fictional collie