Today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Potentially

insensitive, briefly 5 Police

9 ABBA’s “__ Mia!” 14 Vidal’s

Breckinridge 15 Pequod captain 16 Native

Nebraskans 17 Plenty

18 Islamic branch 19 Transports by

truck

20 Winding, hilly

thoroughfares 23 Gandhi’s land 24 Like oysters on

the half shell 25 French water 28 Not kid around 33 IV amounts 36 List-shortening

abbr.

37 Italics feature 38 Walter White

shaved his off 40 In contention (for) 43 On the house 44 Aimée of “La

Dolce Vita” 46 Dmitri’s dissent 48 In low spirits 49 Traitorous spies 53 Driver’s license

info

54 Wayside stop 55 One-up 59 Halloween discards, and what the three sets of circles represent? 64 “Dallas” surname 66 Solid precipitation 67 Backside in a fall? 68 Long-shot ragsto-riches enabler 69 Ices, mob-style 70 Girl in a Salinger

story

71 Enter on a laptop 72 Italian eight 73 Sweetheart

DOWN

1 Savory taste first

identified in Tokyo 2 Carpet synthetic 3 __ as a peacock 4 Tabby stimulant 5 José’s house 6 “Fancy meeting

you here!” 7 “No __, no gain” 8 Mall pizza chain 9 Goth hairstyles 10 Opposite of

17-Across 11 Headpiece for kids in Mickey’s TV club 12 Filmmaker

Brooks 13 Biblical beast of

burden

21 Yarn

22 Boating blade 26 Sleep concern 27 “¿Cómo

está __?” 29 Dune buggy,

briefly

30 “We did it!” 31 Throw wildly 32 North Pole

toymaker 33 “Hanging” problems in the 2000 election 34 Algonquin

transport 35 Iowa port on the Lewis and Clark Trail

39 Coax (out), as a

genie 41 “Science Guy”

Bill 42 Title for DDE 45 Fictional language spoken by Sheldon and Leonard on “The Big Bang Theory” 47 Sporty car roof 50 Wind up 51 Slangy “Movin’

right along ... “52 Had a late meal 56 Not long-winded 57 Daytime soap,

e.g.

58 Big name in

blenders 60 Opposed to 61 Float like a feather in the breeze 62 Breakup

63 “Let me add ... ” 64 Yellowstone

grazers 65 Misery