TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Motels of yore

5 Apt to 10 Dotty 14 Good dirt 15 Raze 16 Newsman — Abel 17 De Gaulle’s topper 18 Ancient Phoenician port 19 Swedish actress

— Olin 20 Zigged and zagged 22 Shards

24 Ill temper 25 Furtive sound 26 Behind the — 29 Refreshing drink 33 Puffs along 34 QB — Tarkenton 36 PBS benefactor 37 Trireme mover 38 Hurled 39 Comstock Lode st. 40 Enigmatic sighting 41 Spade or Mara 42 Kind of tactics 44 Used-car deals 47 Desists from 48 Show reluctance 49 Hockey great 50 Growl at, perhaps 53 Star-crossed (hyph.) 58 Pupil’s place 59 Off-limits 61 Bowser’s pal 62 Paper repository 63 Hamburger extra 64 Give forth 65 Corn, to chickens 66 Loathsome 67 Arms the alarm DOWN 1 Types 2 Caroler’s tune

3 Bay Area valley 4 Cheerful 5 Billows of smoke 6 Solar plexus 7 Exiled Roman poet 8 Toshiba rival 9 Slipping by 10 Strike out 11 Knighted Guinness 12 Ground up 13 Earl Grey et al. 21 Crude metals 23 Doctrine 25 Flat surface 26 Ransack 27 Rub the wrong way? 28 Cannes cash 30 Pavlova and Freud 31 Steel plow inventor 32 Where icicles hang 34 Flattened bottle 35 Same old grind 38 Halloween costume 42 Vassal 43 Wine servers 45 Humiliated 46 Varnish ingredient 47 Group of ants

50 Irk 51 Buffalo’s lake 52 Aswan Dam site 53 Long-legged wader 54 Robber’s hope 55 Fourth dimension 56 Fix typos 57 Pixels 60 Santa — winds