TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Unisex garment

5 Pillow filler

9 Excuse

14 Run in neutral

15 Grease gun target

16 Kind of point

17 Form droplets

18 Commend highly

19 Pierre’s brother

20 Led on

22 Wants badly

24 Movie with a posse

26 Meyers of “Kate & Allie”

27 Happens

30 Makes larger

35 Action flick must

36 Meter maid of song

37 Carnaby Street locale

38 Holed up

39 Merchant ships 42 Chess pieces

43 Neutral shade

45 Rainbow goddess

46 Coronet

48 Radiation measure

50 UPS customer

51 Garden-pond fish

52 Pastes

54 Even as we speak

58 Placate

62 Derrick arms

63 Old Dodge model

65 Impoverish

66 Not relevant

67 Astute

68 Garr of “Tootsie”

69 Backpackers’ gear

70 “Anything —?”

71 Malamute’s load

DOWN

1 Intuition 2 Blissful spot 3 Shutter part 4 Beyond boring 5 Diamond sides 6 Water or rust 7 PC key 8 Assemble 9 Maintain as true 10 Thames trucks 11 Freezes over

12 SF transit system 13 Monsieur’s islands 21 Shift-6 23 Helga’s hubby 25 Viking pursuit 27 Yellow pigment 28 Boy from Baja 29 Tight-knit team 31 Navajo foes 32 Herd follower 33 Yonder 34 Bat’s navigational system 36 Steakhouse order 40 Unbending 41 Expensive 44 Sloppy 47 Fliers 49 Host’s proposals 50 Prone’s opposite 53 Rustic roads 54 Not much (2 wds.) 55 Unfrequented 56 Horse color 57 Blouse part 59 Ayla’s creator Jean — 60 Royal honorific 61 Writer — Bagnold 64 “Mad Max” Gibson