Today’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 Bend

5 Portend

9 Large quantity

12 Psychics may see it

13 Wishing undone

15 Knight’s wife 16 Great reptile

17 Ms. Dunne

18 Crowning point

19 Experimented with

21 Soup morsel

23 PTA and NEA

25 Meryl, in “Out of Africa”

26 Craven or Unseld

29 Purposes

31 Popular watches

35 — Dawn Chong

36 Munchies

38 Be stertorous

39 Fish-eating flyer

41 Metric units

43 Epic

44 Train stations

46 Hint

48 Gobbler, maybe

49 Electrify

51 Kermit, e.g.

52 Farm abode

53 Snead’s game

55 Grabbed

57 Ump’s call (2 wds.)

61 Choir selections

65 “Born Free” lioness

66 Kiri Te Kanawa, e.g.

68 Get dizzy

69 Watch winder

70 Repeatedly

71 Actress — Freeman

72 Familiar digit

73 Urban pollution

74 — Capp of the comics

DOWN

1 Reality

2 Enticement

3 Son of Aphrodite

4 Craft knife (hyph.)

5 Spanning

6 Not their

7 Caesar’s day

8 Tedium

9 Baylor University site

10 Munitions

11 Consider

14 Artist’s plaster

15 Gets late

20 Eventful periods

22 Deli meats

24 Well-dressed

26 Take by force

27 Peopled planet

28 Hombre’s address

30 Fashion accessory

32 Horned animals

33 Jargon

34 Wrinkled

37 Target rival

40 Saying

42 Ladling

45 Messy person

47 They’re often inflated

50 Burro alternative

54 Banners

56 Result of action

57 Gala

58 Palo —, California

59 Psychic’s intro (2 wds.)

60 Potting soil

62 Uris of “Topaz”

63 Heal, as a bone 64 Leave laughing

67 Carnival locale