TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Have occasion

for

5 Pet plea

9 Bacharach and

Reynolds

14 — — proud of

you!

15 GI supply

16 Mall for Plato

17 Take the bait

18 Large computers 20 Cheese dish

22 Optician’s

wares

23 Dash off

24 Throw in

25 John — Astor

29 Cult

31 Movie pooch

35 Paradise

37 Romantic

outing

39 Before, in

combos

40 Bewails

42 Beef or lamb (2

wds.)

44 Horror-film

street

45 Radar screen

47 One of the B

vitamins

48 Survey chart

50 Bird of Egypt

52 Physicist

Nikola —

53 Low-fat meat

55 Zenith

57 Tradition

60 Stayed in hiding

(2 wds.)

64 Pads and covers

a sofa

66 Sappho’s verse 68 Tied

69 Bank no.

70 Rural storehouse 71 Uneasy 72 AAA suggestions 73 Convince

DOWN

1 Pen part

2 Mideast title

3 Is, in Madrid

4 Go-getter

5 Ballroom number

6 Computer notes 7 Skipped

8 Came in first

9 Unveiled

10 Kampala’s country

11 Gypsy gents

12 Oak or maple 13 Get smart with 19 Squash

21 Waning

25 Plantation

drink

26 To any degree (2

wds.)

27 List separator 28 Unseal, to a

poet

30 Auto

32 Glasses, slangily 33 Shadow

34 State Farm

competitor

36 Posh lobbies

38 Blue-penciled 41 Bro or sis 43 — West (life

vest)

46 Patois

49 Wyoming range 51 Rare

54 Stale

56 Fine sprays

57 Where Havana

is

58 Well-briefed (2

wds.)

59 Closed tightly 61 Insurance claim 62 Fat cat’s friend 63 Rural necessity 65 Mammoth

entrapper

67 Note before la