Today’s Crossword:

CLUES ACROSS

1. Imitated

5. Explosion

10. One who writes

12. Large nests

14. Philly specialty

16. A form of “to be”

18. Automobile

19. A way to stand

20. Waterlogged land

22. A way to provide

23. We all need it

25. Stalk of a moss capsule

26. Promotional materials

27. Bashful

28. Ten

30. He captured Valencia

31. Quickly

33. Violent seizure of property

35. Fugazi bassist

37. Baseball great Davey

38. Large bird cage

40. British noble

41. They protect Americans (abbr.)

42. Economic institution

44. Pat lightly

45. Not even

48. Cools

50. Seat belt advocate

52. A dishonorable man

53. Smooths over

55. Moved quickly

56. Part of a play

57. South Dakota

58. Worsen

63. Madam Butterfly and La Boheme

65. Removes

66. Dull, brown fabrics

67. Comedian Rogen

CLUES DOWN

1. 100 sq. meters

2. Dessert

3. One point south of due east

4. Profoundly

5. Swatted

6. Confederate general

7. Soviet composer

8. Japanese deer (pl.)

9. Tellurium

10. Burn with a hot liquid

11. Pupas

13. Famed chapel

15. Car mechanics group

17. Blocks from the sun

18. Numbers cruncher

21. Responds in kind

23. Shaft horsepower (abbr.)

24. Each

27. Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda

29. Tribe of Judah rep

32. Patti Hearst’s captors

34. “The Raven” author

35. Bars give them their own nights

36. Essential for guacamole

39. Currency

40. Golfers hope to make it

43. Touch gently

44. Does not allow

46. Cyprinids

47. Insecticide

49. Passover feast and ceremony

51. Patriotic women

54. Protein-rich liquids

59. Type of soda

60. Necessary to extract metal

61. Inform upon

62. A type of residue

64. Palladium