CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 With regard to

6 One might be en route to the ER

9 Burn the midnight oil, perhaps

13 Leachman tied for the most (eight) Emmy wins as a performer

15 Immediately

16 Screenwriter Ephron

17 Greet with a honk

18 Gave the okay to

20 Where a ring may be left

22 Beauty

23 “Mangia!”

24 Like Vivaldi’s “Spring”

25 Like cartoons

28 Fröbe who played Goldfinger

30 Martial arts rank

31 Show with skits

35 Theater director?

38 Brunch standard

39 Noted Italian campanile that hints at each group of circled letters in this puzzle

43 Gregarious

44 Miller’s salesman

45 Name in book publishing since 1915

46 “Silk Stockings”

co-star Charisse

47 Yields to gravity

51 Fur coat quality

55 Water tester

56 Number of stars

on Ghana’s flag

59 Vein contents

60 Singer Ed with albums titled “+,” “x” and “÷”

62 Like a tutor’s

lesson, often

65 Wedding

acquisitions

66 Dot-__

67 Punk rock

offshoot

68 Respect

69 Lose one’s cool

70 Retired boomer

71 Some HDTVs

DOWN

1 Feign toughness

2 She took a day off with Ferris

3 Page number, often

4 Sports med. branch

5 Ranchero’s rope

6 An official lang. of Malta

7 Actor Freeman

8 One in a storm, maybe

9 MSNBC rival

10 Solo, for Ford

11 Solo, for Fleming

12 “The Resident” star Czuchry

14 Flabbergast

19 Many a retired professor

21 Last of two Pennsylvaniaborn presidents

26 Subject of a painting by Andy and a song by Elton

27 Exorcism targets

29 Dutch exports

32 Promise

33 Employ

34 Canal setting

36 Ceviche or sashimi

37 Villain #13 on AFI’s “100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains”

38 “Thelma & Louise” studio

39 Sound of reproach

40 Sweetie

41 Friendly opening?

42 Connection points

46 Third-stringers

48 Subway in an Ellington classic

49 Miss the mark

50 Feels

52 Fast-food favorite

53 Branch of Islam

54 Thrills

56 Tolkien monsters

57 Element #10

58 Madame Bovary

61 Ticklish Muppet

63 Clairvoyant’s claim

64 Filming site