Quick Crossword

Across

1 Half a poverty-to-wealth metaphor

5 Shows affection, dog-style

10 Amt. rarely paid by a car buyer

14 Came down

15 Puget Sound, e.g.

16 Elevator name

17 Building emergency exit

19 Takes too much for oneself

20 Natural skill

21 Ark landing site: Abbr.

23 P&L part

25 Injure badly

26 Pay

29 Letters at the end of a proof

32 Fish with a net

35 German gent

36 Stalin-era prisons

38 Green acres

39 Some nest egg components

40 Only monosyllabic U.S. state

41 Weighty Brit. references

42 Tease

43 “Ars Poetica” poet

44 Craving

45 Time off

47 From S.F. to Vegas

48 Aquarium cutie

49 Math subj.

51 Palm starch

53 “Spring Symphony” composer

57 Be released

61 West Virginia resource

62 They’re holstered in old Westerns

64 Forget to include

65 Connoisseur

66 Provide the bank blueprints for, say

67 Even civil ones aren’t friendly

68 Bedding component

69 Flu fighters

Down

1 Finn conveyance

2 Et __: and others

3 “Atta __!”

4 Heinz Field NFL team

5 Grocery shoppers’ aids 6 Ltd. relative

7 Refuse to talk, with “up”

8 Didn’t give away

9 Iron output

10 Angora goat fabric

11 Severe weather warning

12 Latvian capital

13 Sibilant “Hey!”

18 First chimp in orbit

22 “Peanuts” word of frustration

24 With 31-Down, hoedown activities, and a hint to the circled letters

26 Pirouette

27 Elevated dwelling

28 “Sit, sit”

30 Sports bureau co-founder Al or Walter

31 See 24-Down

33 Golfer’s “pitching” club

34 Surgical cutter

36 Controversial crop alteration, for short

37 “Golly!”

41 Too tired to go further

43 Big wheel on a ship

46 Gymnast’s jumps

48 Prayer opener

50 Settles

52 Contract negotiator

53 Flat-bottomed garbage hauler

54 Deep sleep

55 Builder who lived to be 950

56 Central church part

58 Cartoonist Goldberg

59 The “E” in DOE: Abbr.

60 Spanish pronoun

63 Actress Wallace of “E.T.”