TODAY’S CROSSWORD

Across

1. Beat

7. High point 14.Young child, Italian 15.Two-wheeled carriage in Cuba

16. Dress

17. Lunar crater on the far side

18. On, as a lamp

19. Person who flees a native land

21. Couples

22. Coaster

24. Bit

25. 1969 Peace Prize grp. 26. Argus-eyed

28. ___ vera

30. Ado

31. Crackpot

33. Those enrolled for compulsory military service 35. Area’s outer edge 37. Aircraft with landing floats

40. “___ me!”

44. Prize since 1949

45. Wanders aimlessly in search of amusement 47. Commemorative marker 48. Marienbad, for one 49. Cart

51. Fishing, perhaps

52. Back talk

54. Cheated

56. Congratulations, of a sort

57. To such an extent 59. Bullish

61. More suspicious

62. Guaranteed

63. Senior citizen

64. Ensnared

Down

1. Tongue taste bud 2. Innumerable

3. “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams has one: Abbr. 4. Bog

5. Clyster

6. Nabokov’s 1955 novel 7. Always

8. Mouselike animal 9. Addition

10. Bust, so to speak 11. Forming a series

12. Rat

13. Some muscles

14. Certain fir

20. First place award (2 wds) 23. Leaking drops

27. Old Chinese money 29. Beanery sign 30. Layers

32. Mountain goat’s perch 34. Charges

36. Rushed (3 wds)

37. Stalkless and attached at the base

38. Select a jury from a list of names

39. Put together

41. Breathe in and out 42. Picked up

43. Like some discussions 46. Mideast V.I.P.

50. Car dealer’s offering 53. Achy

54. Highlander

55. Fine, dry particles 58. Alpine sight

60. Same old, same old