CROSSWORD FOR MONDAY

ACROSS

1 Pyle or Kovacs

6 “Holy cow!”

10 Splinter group

14 Wish for

15 Loafing

16 Continuously

17 Speedy

18 Move toward

19 Helper

20 Wiped out data

22 Botany and physics

24 Wheel buy (2 wds.)

26 Passes, as a bill

27 Snapshot takers

31 Prior to

32 Some horses, briefly

33 Fourth estate

36 Chatter away

39 Smug

40 Reads hastily

41 — Raton, Florida

42 Period of time

43 Edicts

44 Thorough check

45 Tablet

46 Improved model

48 Approved

51 NASA counterpart

52 Ad-libbed (2 wds.)

54 Shinbones

59 Mock butter

60 Hawaiian island

62 Daredevil's attribute

63 Use a blowtorch

64 Wallet stuffers

65 Flight of steps

66 Sp. miss

67 Woolly animals

68 Stressed out

DOWN

1 Fictional governess 2 Kind of admiral 3 Winemaking valley 4 Purple flower 5 Wins over 6 Yang complement

7 Bad day for Caesar 8 Location 9 Spooky quality 10 Where a ghost is invoked 11 Remove a renter

12 Gives up territory

13 Very, in Paris 21 Double helix 23 Hearing organs

25 Humane org.

27 Confine

28 Alice's chronicler

29 Chief

30 Diminish

34 Wharf denizen

35 Follow

36 Jedi master

37 Tart

38 Smith or Jackson

40 Secondary exit (2 wds.)

41 Clingy seedpod (var.)

43 Tammy — Bakker 44 Leaning on

45 Joss stick locale

47 LAX hours

48 Persian Gulf craft

49 Prepared to propose

50 Artemis, to Livy

52 Gets lots of applause

53 The others

55 — noire

56 Where Tabriz is

57 “We try harder” folk

58 Bone-dry

61 — Nimitz