Today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Meadow rodent 5 Ceremonial fire 9 Quipster 12 Unwelcome obligation 13 Freeloader 15 Style 16 Good disguises 17 Vex 18 District 19 High school sweetheart 21 Flowering shrub 23 “This Land Is — Land” 25 Geraint’s love 26 Peace gesture 29 Zoomed 31 Mystery writer — Cross 35 Jungfrau or Eiger 36 Hawke of “Alive” 38 Piano seat 39 Erik the Red’s son 41 “Shane” or “Stagecoach” 43 Hence 44 Male relative 46 Attack on all sides 48 Bronze component 49 Inching forward 51 Cook in a wok 52 Start of a bray 53 Deli bread varieties 55 Pitfall 57 Stumbling block 61 Forested 65 Lightweight toy 66 Fast-growing vine 68 Non-soap opera 69 Heavy metal 70 It may be tall 71 Horse color 72 Diligent insect 73 Ago, to Burns 74 Tar’s patron saint

DOWN

1 Wedding ritual 2 Step——! 3 Winter Olympics event 4 Theme 5 Softsoap (3 wds.) 6 Hankering 7 Vegas rival 8 Pierre’s school 9 News 10 — fixe 11 Eye drop 14 Veld scavenger 15 Fiat 20 Two tablets, maybe 22 Purposes 24 Bring back to snuff 26 Esteem 27 Helen, in Spain 28 Huge-cast films 30 Sticky fruit 32 Nanook’s realm 33 Motherless calf 34 Solo 37 Twig-and-mud homes 40 Acted coy 42 Extend the policy 45 Gaelic pop star 47 Cafeteria item 50 Sure-footed lizard 54 Insults 56 Driving hazard 57 N. Mex. neighbor 58 Good, in Baja 59 Right away 60 Water whirl 62 Cello kin 63 Not know from — 64 Prefix for “billionth” 67 Meditative sect