TODAY’S CROSSWORD

Across

1. Gobs

7. Makes insensitive due to coldness

14. Colorless, flammable hydrocarbon derived from petroleum

15. Magnetite, e.g. (2 wds) 16. Publicly express approval (var. spelling) 17. Japanese women trained to entertain men 18. Humble

19. Drops on blades

21. Change, chemically 22. Face-to-face exam 23. Any Platters platter 25. Small child (var. spelling) 26. “Come to think of it ...” 27. Goods carried by train 29. Abbr. after a name 30. Type of writer, e.g. Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. Forces someone out of bed

34. Hawaiian strings

35. Wallop

36. Obscure

39. Intensify

43. Victorian, for one

44. Firm

46. “The Three Faces of ___”

47. Minnesota ___, pool hustler

49. Soft twilled silk fabric 50. Fused materials used in making glass

51. Far Eastern female servants

53. Popular summer sandwich

54. Salad dressing choice 55. Indian bean

57. Run

59. Wearing an ornamental semicircular crown

60. Nuclear ___ 61. Set of eight 62. More nimble

Down

1. Spanish title for a married woman

2. Upright

3. Bikini, e.g.

4. “___ Poppins”

5. “Star Trek” rank: Abbr. 6. Unnecessary

7. Important person

8. “... ___ he drove out of sight”

9. Black, as la nuit

10. Not yet solidified

11. Fabrics made with Angora yarn

12. Shelf support

13. Six-line stanzas

14. Hairy

20. Cut, maybe

23. Adjusts 24. Lunar crater on the far side

27. Bag-shaped fish traps 28. ___ as nails

31. Arctic bird

33. “Bleah!”

35. Each U.S. state is represented by two

36. Actual (2 wds)

37. Ancient Semitic language

38. Knock (hyphenated) 39. Blow chunks

40. Having three leaflets 41. Landlord who turns out a tenant by legal process 42. Infernal

45. Morning music

48. Cut

50. Contagious bacterial disease affecting horses 52. Bed board

54. Back

56. Darling

58. Dash