TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Smog monitoring grp.

4 Concise

9 Notorious pirate

13 Kitchen utensil

14 Cowboy competition

15 New Zealander

16 Plainly

18 Stage direction

19 Dirty Harry portrayer

20 Homebuyer’s note

22 Most sacred

25 First name in cheesecake

26 Rows

28 Skyscraper part

32 Scotland Yard div.

35 Toe coverers

37 Two-door car

38 — West of “Batman”

40 Hot

42 Wednesday’s god

43 Fixed a seam

45 Takeoff

47 Novelist Umberto —

48 “Messiah” composer

50 Fine violin, briefly

52 Territory

54 Ground

58 Calvin or Rita

62 Deadly snake

63 Rose pest

64 Elixir seeker

67 Bowdoin College locale

68 Kilted musician

69 Obtain

70 Plug away

71 Is entitled to

72 Whichever

DOWN

1 Geologic period

2 Poet — Neruda

3 Smithy’s block

4 Dietary need

5 Promise to pay

6 Gridiron stats

7 Place of control

8 Seesaws (hyph.)

9 Wallaby or joey

10 Wee bit

11 Remnant

12 Kind of straits

15 Kilo system

17 Put one’s foot — —

21 Tease

23 Iceberg sites

24 Journeys

27 Minor mistakes

29 Type of ranch

30 “Iliad” or “Odyssey”

31 Las Vegas rival

32 Payment option

33 Lightbulb, in comics

34 Early morning

36 F. — Fitzgerald

39 Receiving a special award

41 Time long gone

44 Make fun of

46 Tractor owners

49 Escorted

51 Wee drink

53 Dumbfounded

55 Friend, in Spain

56 Peer Gynt creator

57 Spruce

58 Motor parts

59 October’s stone

60 Buckeye State

61 He directed Marlon

65 EMT technique

66 Roost sitter