Today’s Crossword

ACROSS 1 Bath cake 5 Joined together 10 Headquarters 14 Having the skill 15 Kitchen

emanation 16 Made mellow 17 Summary 19 Miss Van Pelt 20 Big green parrot 21 Make do with 22 Luxury furs 24 Pierre’s brother 26 Tibet gazelle 27 Got out of debt 30 Big bash 34 Water or rust 35 Comedian

— Laurel 36 Strike ignorer 38 Tokyo honorific 39 North Carolina’s capital Columbus sch. IRS employee “The Clan of the Cave Bear” author Caesar’s year Axiom Barrettes Finish Work very hard Swiss lake Outcry Give — — shot Dry riverbed Diplomat Gigi’s friend Della or Pee Wee Par for the course — -do-well Work clay Stein fillers 42 43 45 46 48 50 51 52 54 57 58 61 62 65 66 67 68 69 70 DOWN 1 Plunder 2 Bassoon cousin 3 Diva — Gluck 4 Energy 5 Pulled hard 6 Buy by mail 7 Garden-pond fish 8 Down Under birds 9 Injurious 10 Romantic songs 11 Chills and fever 12 Jiffies 13 Actress Ganem 18 More creepy 23 — Ami cleanser 24 Current rage 25 Admires 27 Sub — (secretly) 28 Precise 29 Smidgen 31 Grab a cab 32 Desktop pictures 33 35 37 40 41 44 47 49 50 53 54 55 56 58 59 60 61 63 64 Make a pit stop (2 wds.) Slide sideways Layabouts Ant predator Splits in two Even smaller No, to a laird Clock numeral Made happen Tibet’s capital Sports event Jean Stein best-seller Pious assent Popular hero Shredded Octopi have eight Sickly pale Quilting social Literary compilation