TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Carouse 6 Liniment target 10 Wild guess 14 Nitrous — (laughing gas) 15 Sledgehammer 16 Sledding spot 17 Punctuation mark 19 Penny — 20 Mid-Atlantic st. 21 Desiccated 22 Bordered on 24 Temporary failure 26 Unexpected hit 28 Earthenware jar 30 About, in memos (2 wds.) 31 Computer acronym 34 Mob scene 36 Twig juncture 40 Coffee dispenser 41 Amazon menace 44 1040 org. 45 Not coarse 47 Prime-time hour 48 Very light wood

50 Tel — 52 Amount carried 54 Chewy candy 57 Brief flash 60 Grads 61 Space lead-in 63 Veggie-tray item 65 Roman’s garment 66 Expository treatise 69 Walkie-talkie word 70 Tien Shan mountains (var.) 71 Gung-ho 72 Fringe benefit 73 For fear that 74 Soft leather

DOWN 1 Freeway 2 Oust 3 Small pansy 4 Koch and Wynn 5 Inadvertently reveals (2 wds.) 6 Love, to Pablo 7 Cod and Canaveral 8 Bewildered response 9 — hour (last minute) 10 Hone 11 Trace of color 12 Make changes 13 Drained of resources 18 Film spool 23 Always, to the bard 25 Luau dish 27 Vibraphonist — Hampton 29 Check in 31 — Wiedersehen 32 Hindu title 33 FOX rival 35 Fleming of spydom 37 Sunflower yield

38 Rx givers 39 Spanish “that” 42 Hostile 43 Shellfish 46 Set aside for 49 Lemon cooler 51 UPS truck 53 Human eater 54 Garlic bulb piece 55 Ice-fishing tool 56 Lhasa monks 58 Familiar saying 59 Bogged down

60 On the summit 62 Shed, as light 64 Fiery stack 67 Flamenco shout 68 Frat letter