TODAY’S CROSSWORD

Across

1. Car accessory 4. Convened

7. Symbol over Spanish words

12. Long, long time

13. Formally surrender 14. Bunk

15. Officer’s club 17. Absurd

18. Put down

19. Harden

21. Balloon filler

22. Big name in hotels 23. Edible vegetable oil of sorts (2 wds)

27. “The magic word” 31. Spotted, to Tweety 32. Tiny openings

34. Overthrow, e.g.

35. Assent

36. Not bold

38. Bird-to-be

39. Fort Knox unit

42. Assured

44. Back, in a way

45. Stick out

47. Especially

49. Go through

51. “So ___ me!”

52. Come up with

54. Come fly with me Singer 58. Assumed name

59. Sudden rash or action 61. It’s spotted in westerns 62. Fly high

63. Excursion

64. Arcade coin

65. “Sesame Street” watcher

66. Appetite

Down

1. Switzerland’s capital 2. Beat badly 3. Temper, as metal 4. Lentil, e.g.

5. “Much ___ About Nothing”

6. Andrea Bocelli, for one 7. Prickly plant

8. Gadget used by some allergy sufferers

9. Baker’s unit

10. Contradict

11. Artist’s asset

12. Absorbed, as a cost 13. Untapered cigar

16. Hamper

20. Bit of a draft

23. Song of joy

24. Cy Young, e.g.

25. Western blue flag, e.g. 26. Sprite flavor

28. “He’s ___ nowhere man” (Beatles lyric, 2 wds)

29. Damp

30. “Cogito ___ sum” 31. Kid

33. Fodder holder

37. Dumber

40. Golden

41. Act of defiance or violation

43. Cow

46. “Dig in!”

48. Visual compliment 50. Thomas Jefferson, religiously

52. History Muse

53. Milieu for Lemieux 54. Clash

55. Bolted

56. Archaeological site 57. Death on the Nile cause, perhaps

58. Appropriate

60. ___ juice (milk)