Today’s Crossword

ACROSS 1 Pharaoh’s amulet 7 Took a load off 10 Like a pancake 14 End a layoff 15 Embers, finally 16 Unduly hasty 17 Lathered up 18 Hag’s cry 19 Comic-strip dog 20 Made the grade (2 wds.) Canape toppers Stout Bow opposite Between Operate a ferry Rightful Consumer org. Halloween shout Calcifies Aloha token Purchase Jungfrau, e.g. Near empty Apollo’s priestesses Rustic parents Compete for Above, in verse Ms. MacGraw of films Simpson kid Muppet grouch Sooner than Plagued by Early birds? Hurlers’ stats Tony-winner — Hagen Feudal tenant Artifice Sz. option Beethoven’s Third Famous last word Before, in combos Had a feeling 23 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 37 38 39 40 41 43 44 45 46 47 48 51 52 53 56 57 58 62 63 64 65 66 67 DOWN 1 Almost grads 2 Mgmt. biggie 3 Just as I thought! 4 Split 5 Geometry

answers 6 River bottoms 7 Without risk 8 All kidding — 9 Those folks 10 Iced 11 Starbucks order 12 Showy flower 13 Prickle 21 Drawing rooms 22 Seizes the throne 23 Cellist — Casals 24 The color of honey Leg bone Might — Lama 25 29 30 32 Ravel classic 33 Vacillating

Dane 34 “The King” 35 Ear pollution 36 Skin coolant 42 Make rough 46 Pinball palace 47 Learning experience Wagner opus Play guitar — and desist Either Sprat Boombox sound Landfill Jacques — Cousteau Family mem. Excellent Fictional collie 48 49 50 51 52 54 55 59 60 61