today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Evening

5 Jack who ate no fat

10 Multitude

14 Give a wolfish look

15 Actress — Prentiss

16 Geometry problem

17 Stamp backing

18 Before

19 Wood for furniture

20 Hole for a shoelace

22 Spot remover

24 Ocean bird

26 Positive

27 Ivy shoots

31 Musical rattle

35 Caviar

36 Zip over the ice

38 Light lunch

39 Jarrett and Sparks

41 Name, to Pierre 42 Certain undergrad

43 Soul food

45 — and drabs

48 Move to and —

49 Rock layers

51 Oval

53 Outer edges

55 Bellow

56 Speaker’s platform

59 Plaster

63 Range in Asia

64 Calcutta attire

67 Lump of clay

68 Basted

69 Form a gully

70 Two pounds, plus

71 — Kong

72 Place

73 Rise abruptly

DOWN

1 Venetian magistrate

2 Repulsive 3 Swing around

4 — over (fainted)

5 1957 launch

6 Pie container

7 Same old grind

8 False name

9 Bath powder

10 North Carolina cape

11 Sandwich cookie

12 Connery of 007 fame

13 Sign up for, as a class

21 Drops the ball

23 Paleozoic and Mesozoic

25 Large antelope

27 Kitchen grabbers

28 Turn inside out 29 Rock bottom

30 Keep

32 Sky-high

33 Blue Grotto isle

34 Impromptu (2 wds.)

37 Poet — Dickinson

40 Setting off

44 Recipe direction

46 Smiled upon

47 Fine sediment

50 Keeps in stitches

52 Plays a banjo

54 Well-dressed

56 Poison-ivy symptom

57 Dairy-case buy

58 Cut, as wood

60 Ad award

61 Mixer for rum

62 Hound’s track

65 Kind of deer

66 Potato st.