TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fish bait

5 Throws off

heat

10 Harsh

criticism

14 PC system

15 Dynamite

inventor

16 Stead

17 Word in a

telegram

18 Busch Gardens

site

19 — fixe

20 Just talk (2 wds.) 22 Scrutinize

24 Lobbying org.

25 Balance

26 Muffled,

as sound

30 Drifters

35 Operated

36 S&L offerings

37 Decree

38 Touches off

41 Library need

43 Slur together

44 Play on words

45 Bubble source

46 Ms. Witherspoon 47 Ringmasters?

50 M, to Einstein

53 FBI acronym

54 Promotes (2 wds.) 58 Rosier

62 Fridge stick

63 Came unglued

66 Long-gone bird

67 Give credit

68 Coral island

69 Na+ and Cl

70 Breathing organ 71 Wrinkled

72 Memorable

decades

DOWN

1 Like a rain forest 2 Till

3 Wild disorder

4 Grow larger

5 Spellbind 6 Maori’s quarry,

once

7 “Big Blue”

8 Home of a

brave

9 Vanquishes a

dragon

10 Insincere

11 Verdi opus

12 Sense

13 Energy

source

21 Dublin’s loc.

23 Lionel’s sister

25 Hwys.

26 Paint ingredient 27 Bald one

28 Daddy Warbucks’

ward

29 Mag execs

31 Lyric poem

32 Spree

33 Come about

34 Vertical parts of

goblets

39 Ego companions 40 Crawls with

41 Haul into

court 42 Deep down

44 Slumber-party

attire

48 Barely

manage

49 Aberdeen kid 51 Halos, of sorts 52 Flash flood

54 Bridge

charge 9/11/18 55 Moises of

baseball

56 Scrawny

57 King follower

59 Way out

60 Novelist — Ferber 61 Antarctic sea

64 — — few rounds 65 “Nightmare”

street