TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Big Dipper bear 5 Cheers for matadors 9 — pro quo 13 Fossil fuel 14 Overflowing 15 Language of Pakistan 16 Breathing spell 17 Crammed together 18 Long periods 19 Be in the audience 21 High note 22 Sit down 23 They wrote in runes 25 Mammoth entrapper 27 Teensy bit 30 Found seats 34 As time — on 35 Planted, as seed 37 Bowie’s last stand 38 Commotion 39 Stockholm native 41 Scribble down 42 Fixes 45 School near Windsor Castle 46 Overindulge 47 Building material 49 Contract provisos 51 Magazine fillers 52 Watchdog breed 53 Colleague 56 Rank above maj. 58 Rigorous 62 Patron saint of Norway 63 Prevent 65 Vivacity 66 Foal’s parent 67 Hourly fees 68 Went down 69 Worker 70 Sharp blow 71 Lies on the beach

DOWN

1 West Coast sch. 2 Defeat 3 Road deicer 4 Chilean novelist 5 Feel grateful 6 Cavalry weapon 7 Latin I verb 8 Pieces of paper 9 Spat 10 Coax 11 March 15, in Rome 12 Use bath powder 14 Letter info 20 Eggy drink 24 Fast-talked 26 I knew it! 27 Marsh 28 Clothes horse 29 Socrates’ forte 30 Leave the space station 31 Punjab potentates 32 Wax theatrical 33 Is overfond 36 Soggy 40 Joins up 43 Towered over 44 Ground cover 46 Most mannerly 48 Prized statuettes 50 Did lunch 52 Prince Arn’s mother 53 Swanky 54 Charles Lamb 55 Deserve 57 Cameo shape 59 Jazzy Fitzgerald 60 Sahara Desert’s lack 61 Finales 64 Account exec