Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 “The Chosen” novelist Potok
6 Doofuses
12 Itinerary info
15 Light weight
16 Hullabaloo
17 “Your Moment of __”: “The Daily Show” bit
18 Pretrial proceeding to determine if the accused is released or held during trial
21 Family unit
22 Ties up
23 Tawdry
30 Get-up-and-go
31 Peddle
32 Again, in Spanish
34 Having a low pH
37 Stop communicating
41 Master
42 Easy throw
44 Forget a date, e.g.
45 Actress Vardalos
46 Programmer’s hint of a still bigger problem 50 Pines
52 Plays at, with “in”
54 Costa __
55 Source of chips
58 Soothsayer’s ability
61 Watering hole
63 Vicinity
64 Wake up ... or what five long Across answers do?
72 Chicken-king link
73 Polar jacket
74 Dishonorable fellow
75 Chop off
76 Big Apple area, with “the”
77 Nasser’s successor
DOWN
1 Northern Pacific catch
2 Cranberry or cherry
3 Bad picnic omen
4 Like beer on a summer day, ideally 5 __ Park: Edison lab site
6 Japanese faith
7 Dove’s call
8 Dearie
9 Speed letters
10 Cry repeated at soccer matches
11 Defunct Swedish automaker
12 Web mag
13 Cares for
14 Insecure feeling
19 Old salt
20 Channing’s role in “Grease”
23 Genesis father of twins
24 Wafer brand
25 Practiced, as a trade
26 NBA’s Hawks, on scoreboards
27 B’way sellout sign
28 Zap with a stun gun
29 More than most
33 French 101 verb
35 “Casablanca” heroine
36 Tangle removers
38 Strip of gear, as a ship
39 Sure thing 40 Attacks
43 “I’m a Mess” singer Rexha
47 __ Bauer
48 Inc. kin
49 Zodiac feline
51 Online news pioneer Huffington
53 Snide
55 Golden St. region
56 Renaissance painter Veronese 57 It usually shows AK and HI as insets
59 Ob-gyns, e.g.
60 Personal ad verb
62 Stick a fork in
65 Plastic __ Band
66 Pained outburst
67 Wash. neighbor
68 Old Mideast org.
69 Pathetic
70 Señora Perón
71 Tennis match unit