TODAY’S CROSSWORD

Across

1. Wine holder

5. Literally, “for this”

10. Breezed through

14. Small buffalo

15. Common smoked cheese

16. Frost-covered

17. The act of deceiving yourself

19. Brother of Abel

20. Coveted

21. Like some breezes

23. Back

24. Floodgate

26. Person who sells services

31. Faint

34. Sylvester, to Tweety

35. African antelope

36. ___ v. Wade

37. Favorite

38. “A pox on you!”

40. Back talk

41. Baffled (2 wds)

43. “My boy”

44. “For shame!”

45. Places to buy car fuel (2 wds)

49. Letter

50. Army attack helicopter

55. Method, skill or art applied to a particular task (var. spell.)

58. Sent through postage

59. Advil target

60. One’s native land

63. Chew the fat

64. French romance

65. Ashtabula’s lake

66. Hit the bottle

67. Coffee order

68. Cleave

Down

1. Checks out

2. About

3. Crack

4. An infidel in Islam

5. Ancient

6. Elmer, to Bugs

7. Cast

8. Loathsome

9. Kitty treat

10. Tell tale activity

11. “Bye now”

12. Arabic for “commander”

13. Fraction of a newton

18. Animal shelters

22. Brouhaha

24. Bed board

25. Affranchise

27. Absorbed, as a cost

28. Preserve, in a way

29. Assortment

30. Back of the neck

31. Downer

32. Bit

33. Bungle, with “up”

37. Eucharistic plate

38. Bottom

39. Setting for TV’s “Newhart”

42. Artsy one

43. Anger, e.g.

46. Sloth, e.g.

47. Puget Sound city

48. Cicatrix

51. Edmonton hockey player

52. Roar

53. Kidney enzyme

54. Extra

55. Boor’s lack 56. Bounce back, in a way

57. Crack, in a way

58. ___ mortals

61. “Sesame Street” watcher

62. QB’s cry