Today’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 Crazes 5 In a fog 10 Toppled 14 Breakdown 15 Conscious 16 Libretto feature 17 Funny Bombeck 18 Sherpa’s country 19 Basketball hoops 20 Sampled 22 Pollen-bearers 24 Fair grade 25 Bothersome 26 Intellectual 29 Speedway competitions 33 Exclamation of disgust 34 Vexation 35 Cattle pen 36 Greek vowel 39 First-aid item 40 Get 41 Magna — laude 42 Just hired 43 Briefcase closers 44 Plant with tendrils 47 Patronage 50 Spoil the finish 51 Seesaw support 54 Illicit payments 58 Asian mountains 59 Gap 62 Frat Z 63 No-frills hairdo 64 Opera hero, often 65 Vitality 66 No sweat! 67 Reporter’s angle 68 Go out with

DOWN

1 Stew over 2 Atmosphere 3 Lowers the lights 4 Weightlifter’s move 5 Yellow flower 6 Impress deeply 7 Channel-surf 8 Destroy a tape 9 Shoulder muscles 10 Rural sight 11 Huron neighbor 12 Sketch 13 Edinburgh girl 21 Want-ad abbr. 23 Ohio city 25 Face or amble lead-in 26 Bossa nova kin 27 IOUs 28 Son of Val and Aleta 30 Rubberneck 31 Having keen desire 32 Large number 33 Eeyore’s friend 35 Party tray cheese 37 Room 38 Stage platform 39 Prickly seedcase 41 Hypo units 45 Swab target 46 Valued greatly 48 Blows hard 49 Drives forward 51 Pseudo 52 Longest arm bone 53 Neighbor of Thailand 55 Dracula actor — Lugosi 56 “L’—, c’est moi” 57 Compos mentis 60 Collected sayings 61 Pull a fast one