TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Pleasure trip

6 Loud noises

10 Preside at tea 14 Courtyards

15 Wrinkle remover 16 Monster

17 Trellis coverers 18 Bowling alley

19 Kind of

awareness

20 Punch or kiss

21 Political

alliances

23 Wind dir.

25 Flared, as a skirt 26 Souvenir items 29 Brown bird

31 Bundles

35 Caviar, actually 36 — ex machina 37 Most appealing 38 Work with

antiques

40 Easel partner

41 Skin softeners 42 Halo, of sorts 43 Hair goo

44 Serpent

Hercules fought 45 Till

46 Causing misery 47 Colossus

49 Floor swabber 51 Sopping wet

54 Wearing

vestments

58 Fuel from a

marsh

59 Viking letter

60 Python or cobra 61 Fonda or

Russell

62 Sea eagle

63 Utah city

64 Hit some ice 65 Galaxy unit 66 In dire straits DOWN 1 Grates upon

2 Physicist’s study 3 — Minor

4 Female relatives 5 Small jobs

6 Carpet thickness 7 Vitamin C source 8 Chinese soup

9 Vile smile

10 Write a check for the future

11 Double-curve molding 12 WWW

addresses

13 TKO official

22 Interstellar

cloud

24 Jugs

26 Set on fire

27 All

28 Maneuvered

carefully

30 Be sorry for

32 Release (2 wds.) 33 Organic

compound

34 Stone

monument

36 Realm 37 Pool shot

39 Aimed for

40 Lay down

42 Insect feeler 45 Not injured

46 Sea animal

48 Field units

50 Bean or Welles 51 Good buy

52 Rajah’s wife 53 Shy creature 55 Ordered

56 Barely

managed

57 Refuse to

acknowledge 58 Sleepwear