DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ophthalmic sore 5 Season-ending college football game 9 Stories spanning decades 14 __ hygiene 15 Bounce off a wall 16 Chopin piece 17 Evening show with headlines and stories 19 Flabbergast 20 Swiss convention city 21 Fist-pump cry 23 Sales force member 24 ’60s protest org. 25 Periods that may decide 5-Acrosses, briefly 27 Andean animal 29 Like perceptive hindsight 33 Promise before testimony 36 Take to court 37 Journalist Couric 38 German coal valley 39 Lifts on slopes 42 Gotten a glimpse of 43 Uncomfortably pricey 45 One collaring a perp 46 Watch displays, briefly 47 Generic pre-sunrise hour 51 Prefix for Rome’s country 52 Use a shovel 53 Pound sound 56 __ Palmas: Canary Islands city 58 “No damage done” 60 Five cents 62 Yellowish brown 64 Farm’s remote acreage 66 French sweetie 67 Inland Asian sea 68 Eve’s opposite 69 Frankfurt’s state 70 Lowdown 71 Soon, to a bard

DOWN

1 Billy Joel creations 2 Trapped on a branch 3 Signs of boredom 4 “Is there something __?” 5 Software trial 6 Halloween mo. 7 Food for Miss Muffet 8 Needing company 9 Seattle athlete 10 Fast-cash spot, for short 11 “Money-back” assurance, perhaps 12 Carving tool 13 Ooze 18 Swear to be true 22 Bottom-row PC key 26 Dismiss with disdain 28 Insultingly small, as a payment 29 “... or else!” remark 30 Instruct 31 Even on the scoreboard 32 Strong desires 33 Not exactly 34 Writer: abbr. 35 Things to wash after dinner 40 __ rage: PED user’s aggression 41 Very light rain 44 Grassland 48 Netherlands airline 49 “That’s a shame” 50 Jubilant end-of-week cry 53 Ohio rubber city 54 Back in style 55 Swashbuckling Errol 56 __ Ness monster 57 Steady pain 59 Corn syrup brand 61 Unconscious state 63 Ambulance destinations: abbr. 65 Golfer’s hat