Today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Spunky 8 Longest-serving Japanese prime minister

11 Ave. crossers 14 Steel foundry

input

15 Tractionimproving

17 “Try some!” 18 Lamaze class

attendee 19 Expectant time 20 One of the family 22 About 24% of the

U.S. Congress 23 Stations

26 Place for

choppers

29 Not quite right 30 Oodles 31 Broadway song that begins, “The most beautiful sound I ever heard”

33 Brief encounter 34 Flag thrower 37 Co-tsar with

Peter I 38 Saucepan cover 39 Missile Command

game company 41 Place to stay 42 Newcastle

Brown __ 43 Starts bubbling,

maybe

44 Fleecy one 45 Loafs

47 Strong suit 48 Lost, as a big

lead

49 Way back when 50 Rum drink 54 Competition that includes snowboarding 57 Pianist

Rubinstein 58 California’s __ Gabriel Mountains

60 Egg cells

61 Like the most

busy busybody 64 Mid-Michigan city 67 Uganda’s capital 68 Accessory for an Aquaman costume 69 Before, in poems 70 Coffee hour sight 71 “Sounds right to me”

DOWN

1 Positioned 2 Really want 3 New Year’s Day event in Pasadena

4 Tiny toiler 5 Name in eerie

fiction

6 Proper to a fault 7 Himalayan

legend 8 “Furthermore ... ” 9 Fluffy wrap 10 Finish

impressively 11 Sportscast

technique 12 River near

Vatican City 13 Exhausted 16 “Hold it!”

21 Lamb Chop

puppeteer 24 Short, in a way 25 It helps you go

places

27 Gives the slip 28 Part of LAPD 31 Pedometer unit 32 Swear

33 Sport coat 34 Get support, in a way ... and what the puzzle circles do

35 Writer Gardner 36 Rock that, oddly,

loses to paper 40 Puccini opera 46 Boxer Laila 49 Ventura County city 50 German word of

gratitude

51 Wildly cheering 52 Knocker’s words 53 Zinger

55 Chris of “Captain

America” 56 Handled

59 Wine made from

Muscat grapes 62 Camera type, for

short

63 You basked for it 65 USO show

audience 66 Wyo. neighbor