TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Bumbling 6 Political alliance 10 Range part 14 Major no-no 15 McEntire of music 16 Pita treat 17 Meddle 18 Hertz rival 19 Designer label

20 Off base, maybe (2 wds.) 22 Changes a bill 24 Nudge, perhaps 25 Jumping craze 26 Crochet project 30 Natural resin 31 Humerus neighbor 32 “Iron Chancellor” Bismarck 35 Former retail giant 40 Outback cutie 42 Moon, in verse 43 Lout 44 Made a blouse 45 Hill 47 Nothing, to Pedro 48 Feedbag morsel 50 Couch 52 Peril

56 Ore hauler 58 Made level 59 Comments 63 Speak violently 64 Kind of mate 66 Dazed, with “out” 68 Contractors’ figures 69 Bear constellation 70 Wed secretly 71 Do in 72 Flower 73 Financial obligations

DOWN

1 — about time! 2 Metric prefix 3 Poet’s black 4 Billiards 5 Kansas capital 6 Heroic 7 Embankment 8 — -Wan Kenobi 9 Greenish melon 10 Poet Nash 11 Contending 12 Eat away at 13 They wrote in runes 21 Livy’s year 23 Oozy 26 Bering Sea birds 27 Small ice field 28 Nibble 29 Irwin of the PGA 30 Slow pitches 33 Grounds for a suit 34 Tetra- less one

36 A throng 37 Moby Dick pursuer 38 Caught the bus

39 Frog cousin 41 Delight in 46 Red-waxed cheese 49 Makes sense (2 wds.) 51 Astonished 52 Cumin and mint 53 Benefit 54 Castle in Ruritania 55 Uneasy 56 Bridge support 57 Kind of race 60 Starlet’s dream 61 Door opener 62 Fall mo. 65 Pizarro’s quest 67 — Moines