CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 *Dough (and start of a word ladder) 6 “__ it ain’t so!” 9 Pop’s bros 13 Insurance giant 14 Paul Bunyan tool 15 *Bit of luck 16 *Dismal 17 Itinerary word 18 Poetic feet 19 __ Lingus 20 Horse-and-buggy sect 22 *Sheepish remark? 23 Interoffice PC connection 24 Carnival city 25 “You bet!” 27 “Seats all taken” sign 28 Abbr. on a B-52 30 Not nice at all 32 Hillside home asset 33 Author Wiesel 35 Blood work and such 37 Apt description of the sequence suggested by the answers to starred clues? 40 Partygoer, say 43 Target’s target, say 46 Some August babies 47 Third of eight 50 Intertwine 52 Under the weather 53 Also say 54 What a suspect tries to beat, with “the” 56 “That’s more than I need to know” 57 *Made holy 59 Musical set in Argentina 61 Family guy 62 “Me too!” 63 Bigwig 64 *Fabulous time 66 *Dispense with modesty 67 Uncommon sense 68 Justice Sotomayor 69 A.D. part 70 Vote against 71 *Doomed, slangily (and end of the ladder)

DOWN

1 Ricky’s signature song on “I Love Lucy” 2 Word after news or press 3 Everlasting 4 Santa __ winds 5 Senegal’s capital 6 Rescuer 7 x or y, on graphs 8 “Sure, sure” 9 Eurasian border river 10 Usually successful opponent 11 Musical set at the Kit Kat Klub 12 Winter lifts 15 Tots’ spill catchers 21 Karaoke singer’s tool 26 Isle of Napoleon’s exile 29 Piccolo relatives 31 Gastric woe 32 Cobra’s weapon 34 Long, long time 36 “Open __ 9 p.m.”: store sign 38 Pigged out (on), briefly 39 All square 40 Storied cave opener 41 Exposes 42 Holy city resident? 44 Nails the test 45 Absorption process 48 Psychedelic 49 Fez or fedora 51 Suggest 53 Go __: fight 55 Brewery that co-distributes Not Your Father’s Root Beer 58 Just passable 60 Mastercard rival 65 WC