TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Scale

6 Gemstone

10 Senor’s house

14 Like a haunted

house

15 Butler, to Gable

16 Not “pro”

17 Stay clear of

18 Junction

20 Haze

22 Auburn tint

23 — Palmas

24 Museum contents

25 Raise flowers

29 Nostalgic

34 Sultans’ cousins

35 Put up cedar shakes

36 Prompt

37 Auction website

38 Rouse from sleep

39 Boat with oars

40 Badminton need

41 Soap units

42 Lennox of the

Eurythmics

43 Spider

45 Came to an end

46 Whodunit herring

47 IRS month

48 Bantu people

51 Like drinks during a

toast

56 Alexander’s teacher

58 Tire-making center

60 Gone by

61 In shape

62 Argot

63 Do in

64 Is, in Segovia

65 Contemptuous look

DOWN

1 Mediocre grade

2 Strauss of jeans

3 Big oil supplier

4 Skirt style

5 Ladybugs

6 Whales like Shamu

7 Sweet wine

8 Sunburn remedy

9 Orchestra leader — Baxter

10 Insert marks

11 Prolific auth.

12 Sax man Getz

13 Verdi opus

19 Tear to pieces

21 Woosnam of golf

24 Grace ender

25 Ms. Davis of films

26 Color of honey

27 Cowboy’s rope

28 Not rainy

29 Raised prices

30 Ovid works

31 Desktop symbols

32 Marie or Pierre

33 Typed in

35 H.H. Munro

38 Magician’s prop

39 Molecular biology topic Bureau 42 TV receptors

44 Like kaiser rolls

45 IRS form expert

47 Skybox locale

48 Hits with a stun gun 49 Siberian river 50 Actress — Bonet 51 All-purpose trucks 52 — du jour

53 Potato jacket 54 Ocean bird 55 Venetian magistrate 57 Bullfight cheer 59 Fjord terr.