Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 For that reason 5 Mekong River
land
9 “Settle down!”
15 “Banjo on my knee” song of 1848
17 Weapon for Spain’s Philip II
18 Byrd
20 Frivolous
21 Female beast that sounds like a river
22 Strengthen
25 __ chi
26 The Byrds
35 Top often with an image
36 Showing presently
37 Power source
38 Gp. with related interests
40 Provides a buffet, say
43 Disease namesake
44 Staff figures
46 Object of a
detective’s quest
48 D.C. VIP
49 “The Birds”
53 Organ with a hammer
54 Unwilling
55 Root that’s a source of tapioca
59 Hip-hop star Green
62 Bird
67 Butcher’s offering
68 Many in Caltech’s faculty
69 Like troublesome mascara
70 Forest grazers
71 Indian music
DOWN
1 Aurora’s Greek counterpart
2 P-like letter
3 Atlanta sch. fielding the Panthers
4 Defeat
5 “Major Crimes” force, briefly
6 “And giving __, up the chimney ... ”
7 Without siblings
8 Encl. to an editor
9 Eggs on crackers, perhaps
10 Starting places
11 Little on “The Wire”
12 Running behind
13 Loving exchanges
14 Works on a route
16 Mailing label words
19 Westernmost Aleutian Island
22 Join
23 Granola relative
24 Like some hotel thermostats
27 Sch. with an Asheville campus
28 Genetic molecule
29 Insensitive, in a way
30 Gyrate like Cyrus
31 Neighbor of Arg.
32 Actress Milano
33 “Whatever you want”
34 Spray with a hose
39 It has Giants but not Titans: Abbr.
41 Mythical aerial menace
42 Roman sun god
45 Woolgatherer?
47 Order to soldiers
50 Hollowed-out area
51 Algerian port
52 With less delay
55 Ozone-depleting chemicals, briefly
56 Donor drive target
57 Browser’s find
58 Ward of “House”
59 Candy __
60 Periphery
61 Burnoosewearing leader
63 Word with sea or seed
64 Leaves for a spot
65 38-Across relative
66 CIA relative