TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Flexible

6 Comfy shoe

9 Beach scavengers 14 Take advantage of 15 NW state

16 Sky hunter

17 Copper “rust”

19 Mead subject

20 Nile reptile

21 Sediment

22 Primitive

weapon

23 Thigh muscle,

in the gym

25 Essences

26 Laughable

29 Fearless Fosdick

creator

31 Sand units

32 Tlingit

36 James — Jones

37 Banned pesticide 38 The rain in

Spain?

40 Watered down

43 Bully, actually

45 Big steel town

46 Froggy

47 Series opener?

50 Kid in “Aliens”

51 Diameter halves 52 Symphony or

tome

54 Large cask

57 Eat away at

58 Whoop it up (2

wds.)

61 Freighter

hazards

62 Yea, to a matador 63 Dodge

64 Cash, for instance 65 Well-worn

66 Kayak user

DOWN

1 Pumice source 2 “Blue Tail Fly”

singer

3 Ground cover 4 Out of sight

5 Yale student 6 Bogged down

7 Garfield’s

canine pal

8 One of the Mamas 9 Spreads dirt

10 Europe-Asia

divider

11 Quota

12 Raucous divers

13 Pantyhose woe

18 Spiky flowers

23 Porcupine spine 24 40-cup brewer

25 College stat

26 Span in years

27 Wire nail

28 Exotic wrap

29 Tea container

30 Hgt.

33 Gold standard

34 Thickening

agent

35 Cell habitants

37 “The,” in Bonn

39 Dined

41 Least fair

42 Just a little

43 More than this? 44 Zippy’s word 47 Merchandise 48 Nose stimuli 49 Long, narrow

hilltop

50 Tossed in the

microwave 51 “Fancy”

singer

52 Melville

title 9/15/18 53 Get boring 54 Consistent

with reality 55 Karachi

language 56 Moscow

turndown 59 Give — —

break!

60 Pipe fitting