CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Crosses by

wading

6 Bag-checking org.

9 Juice buy

14 Spreads used

instead of butter

15 Bar passer, briefly

16 Latin bears

17 Crude carrier

19 De La Garza of

“FBI”

20 “Stop stalling!”

21 Like a stunt pilot’s

maneuvers

23 Disfigure

24 Part of an act

26 Notable biblical

birth

28 “Inferno” poet

30 Tour de France

saison

31 Gem set by itself

35 “She loves you”

followers, in song

39 What may be

before now?

40 Old nuclear agcy.

41 Chicago winter

hrs.

43 Statesman with an eponymous jacket

44 Court case

46 It’s useless to

argue with one

49 Predicament

51 “Speed Racer”

genre

52 Hikers’ flasks

56 Serena’s sister

59 Time to

remember

60 Twist in pain

62 Barbershop

sound

64 Kaka’ako crooner

66 Dramatic descents, and a hint to each set of circles 68 Prenatal test,

informally

69 Circus closing?

70 Pigeon shelters

71 Like starfish

72 Legal thing

73 It’s quite a blast

DOWN

1 __ chain

2 Hodgepodges

3 Bit of antiquity

4 Punctuational symbol of completeness

5 U.S. ID issuer

6 Word before heart or heed

7 Less lax

8 Skylit courts

9 Good thing to spend with one’s kids 10 Internet

acronym

11 “Ditto”

12 Approached

aggressively

13 Lachrymose

18 Swaying hip-hop

dance

22 Downed

25 “Rebel Without a

Cause” co-star

27 Sign of success

29 Clock sound

31 Collector’s goal

32 Yossarian’s “Catch-22” tentmate

33 Island garland

34 Janet Yellen’s

field: Abbr.

36 Physicians’ org.

37 Scary “2001”

computer 38 Fifth of a musical

series

42 Desk chair feature

45 Admiral’s rear

47 ’70s tennis star

Ilie

48 Two fins

50 Gen-__

52 Aromatic closet-lining wood

53 Barbecue draw

54 Child minder

55 Fertilizer

compound

57 Act in concert

58 Angle calculations

61 Escaping-steam

sound

63 Verbal nudge

65 Step on it,

quaintly

67 BYU or NYU