TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stand behind

5 Microscopic

animal (var.)

10 Pet lovers’ gp.

14 Exasperate

15 Kind of clip or

tiger

16 Say grace

17 Bouquet

18 Napoleon’s fate 19 “— kleine

Nachtmusik”

20 Entertainer —

Newton

22 Flimflams (2

wds.)

24 Units of work

27 Stroll

28 Bad guys

32 “Titanic” award 36 “Shogun”

apparel

37 Not taut

39 Noted

frontiersman

40 Tenets

42 Nearer the facts 44 Bad mood

45 Pennies

47 Pipe joint

49 Prompter’s hint 50 Follow

51 Generously

53 Rate of motion 56 Stooped down 57 Dian Fossey’s

friends

61 Electronics giant 65 Under the covers 66 Crumble away 69 Machine for

weaving

70 Hoop’s place

71 Strongman of

myth

72 Sidle past

73 Noted limerick

maker 74 Short essay 75 Jockey’s need

DOWN

1 Facial feature 2 Verdi masterpiece

3 Jade

4 Central part

5 Imitate

6 To the —

7 Grand in scale 8 Underneath

9 Hippodrome 10 Talks about (2 wds.)

11 Ever so proper 12 Sugar source 13 Skippers’ OKs 21 Pitchers’ stats 23 Dollop

25 Thin gold layer 26 Entrap

28 Diva’s asset

29 “Hedda Gabler”

author

30 Sketches

31 Long oar

33 Sofa

34 Cancel

35 Type in again 38 Shish —

41 More idiotic

43 Roam about 46 It has flippers 48 Finishes first 52 Less fresh

54 Football shoe

part

55 Sagan’s “pale

blue dot”

57 Audacity

58 Wind

instrument 59 McEntire of

country

60 Fish choice 62 Bump

63 Hindu

mystic

64 Black cat,

perhaps

67 Stop up

68 Vane dir.