TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Walking step

5 Cornfield robber

9 Tiny jumpers

14 Tiant or Aparicio

15 Tee-hee cousin

(hyph.)

16 Bowie’s last stand

17 Custard ingredients

18 Centrally located

19 More judicious

20 Detective’s cry

21 Official assignment

23 Bowler’s goals

25 Date part

26 Diamond —

27 Drying oven

29 Currently

32 Fairylike

35 Loony

36 Give up land

37 Mel’s Diner waitress

38 Spicy mustard

39 Where Cambodia is

40Writer — Bagnold

41 Reddish-brown

horse

42 Cheapskate

43 Sinbad’s transport

44 Plummeted

45 Storage unit

46 Italian wine city

48 Livestock source

52 Traveler’s goal

56 Funny Charlotte —

57 Illegal burning

58 Shucks!

59 Leaning tower town

60 Sluggish

61 Heavy-metal band

62 With, to Henri

63 Tries to locate

64 Velvety plant

65 Vitality

DOWN

1 Supplications

2 Anything whatever

3 Havana export

4 Snaky letter

5 Wedding site

6 Boat runways

7 Taft’s state

8 Arroyo

9 Zip up

10 Andes ruminant

11 Enthusiasm

12 So be it!

13 Variety

21 Quite similar

22 Chute material

24 Epic of Troy

27 Savalas role

28 Screen image

30 Comics dog

31 Become frayed

32 Constantly

33 Jay of late-night TV

34 Chicken dish

35 Wildebeest chaser

36 “The — Mutiny”

38 Shower feature

42 Appearance

44 Is frugal

45 Wild horses

47 Baby bringer?

48 Finch and sparrow 49 Go by car

50 Inches forward

51 Respond to a stimulus

52 Speaker’s platform

53 Seacoast eagle

54 Bede or Sandler

55 Baja snack

59 La —, Bolivia