Today’s CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cougar

5 Gigantic

9 Scoundrel

12 Obsessed whaler

13 Better trained

15 “Murder by Death” actor

16 Back muscles, briefly

17 Queeg’s ship

18 Domicile

19 Speechless

20 Type of viper

21 Steeped

23 One dimension

25 Calf-length

26 Stage prompt

27 Part of FDIC

30 Price tag

33 Calculator key

34 Trawler’s haul

36 Not just mine

37 Musical intro

40 PCB regulator

41 Cheat sheet

43 Pipe bends

44 Sloping walks

46 Keenly

48 Like Dogpatch’s

Abner

49 Makes illegal

50 Used a machete

53 Hare cousin

56 Mr. Walton

57 Canned

59 Novelist Jean —

60 Jack up

62 Something remarkable

63 Linger

64 Round dwellings

65 Lazing about

66 Sweetie-pie

67 Amazing act

68 Close tightly

DOWN

1 Hand part

2 Mover’s rental (hyph.)

3 Dull finish

4 Lack

5 Move out

6 Fluster

7 Steal away

8 Dice throw

9 Black bird

10 Pinnacle

11 Nailed at a slant

14 Dwelled

15 Presides

22 Keats opus

24 Quaff

25 Toolbar items

27 Young mare

28 “Excuse me!”

29 Reindeer herder

30 — cit. (footnote abbr.)

31 Faint glow

32 — -a-brac

33 Markets

35 Trial VIPS

38 NASA splashdown

39 Novelist — Ambler

42 Champagne

45 Acid neutralizers

47 Asian language group

48 Weakest, as an excuse

50 “— la vista!”

51 Radiate

52 Ms. Reese

53 Carelessly hasty

54 Wheels

55 Vanilla source

56 Male parent

58 Sword fight

61 — Wiedersehen