Today’s Crossword
ACROSS 1 They may be scraped off in bars 6 Hamlet’s “A little more than kin, and less than kind,” e.g. 11 Cut short 14 Atlas box 15 Got a lode of 16 Half a pair 17 Up-tempo music lover’s aversion? 20 Tune 21 Pond fish 22 Sticks in 23 Meeting organizers 27 Belg. neighbor 29 Oil-yielding Asian tree 30 Large garlic relative? 36 Striped animal 38 South side? 39 Time to mark 40 Employed 41 Negative prefix 42 Amazon business 44 Disney Store collectible 45 Weakling’s lack 47 Performed well enough 48 Classical dance minus the lifting, throwing, and such? 51 Sign of elimination 52 Wise __ 53 Matured 55 Siamese, nowadays 58 One seen on most 46-Down 61 Bar valve 62 Genetic determinants of Southern linguistic variations? 68 Vietnamese soup 69 Irritant 70 Drudges 71 Polish off 72 Good thing to have 73 Totally committed, and a hint to four puzzle answers DOWN 1 It’s petty but misleading 2 Brahms’ “Variations __ Theme of Paganini” 3 Comm. system with hand motions 4 Mixtures 5 Serious 6 “Moi?” 7 Set, as the sun 8 Collection of spies? 9 Make happy 10 Email suffix 11 Investor’s alternative 12 Like most ’80s-’90s commercial music 13 Winged collectors 18 Uninteresting 19 Countess’ spouse, perhaps 23 Storage areas 24 Old U.K. coin worth 21 shillings 25 Swallow up 26 Lighthouse output 28 Facilitated 31 Unhappy utterance 32 Everyone, to some believers 33 Oppressively heavy 34 Colorful songbird 35 Rapped 37 Hasidic teacher 43 Quahog’s quarters 46 58-Across homes 49 Oscar winner Jannings 50 Puente of mambo fame 54 Noodles 55 Class 56 “Yeah, that’s funny” 57 Tons 59 Tram loads 60 Masterminded, as a complex plan 63 Many an IRS employee 64 Made the acquaintance of 65 Thickness measure 66 __ Gold, Alan Cumming’s “The Good Wife” role 67 U.S. ID