Today’s Crossword:

CLUES ACROSS

1. Stores

6. Worthless entertainment

9. Where scientists work

13. Pretty flower

14. A way to act

15. Double-reed instrument

16. Type of acid

17. Famed astronomer

18. Smooth, shiny fabric

19. Profited from

21. Secret clique

22. Infections

23. Crony

24. Teens go here every day (abbr.)

25. Suitable

28. Fresh Price of __ Air

29. Ancient city of Egypt

31. Basketball move

33. Polished

36. There’s a north and a south

38. Egg of a louse

39. Once-ubiquitous department store

41. Portray precisely

44. Thick piece of something

45. Period between eclipses

46. Indicates near

48. Investment account

49. England, Scotland, N. Ireland, and Wales (abbr.)

51. Beak

52. Void of skill

54. Walked back and forth

56. A display of passion

60. Geological times

61. Type of restaurant

62. Spacious

63. Edible seaweed

64. Utah city

65. Tropical tree

66. Nervous tissue compound

67. Body part

68. Muscles and tendons

CLUES DOWN

1. Draw out wool

2. Give someone a job

3. Chemical and ammo manufacturer

4. Footsteps

5. The Palmetto State

6. Books have lots of them

7. Diverse Israeli city

8. It’s mightier than the sword

9. Confines

10. First month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year

11. Idaho’s highest peak

12. Prevents from seeing

14. Determine time

17. Father children

20. Tab on a key ring

21. Dog genus

23. Peter’s last name

25. Request

26. Walk heavily

27. Allowances

29. English football squad

30. Fish-eating aquatic mammals

32. South Pacific island region

34. Unaccounted for

35. Small taste of whiskey

37. Ventilated

40. Helps little firms

42. One of means

43. Fencing swords

47. Inches per minute (abbr.)

49. Turn upside down

50. S. African semi desert

52. Dutch names of Ypres

53. Instruct

55. Oily freshwater fish

56. Italian river

57. Sneaker giant

58. The men who man a ship

59. Some need glasses

61. Body part

65. Indicates position