The Daily Commuter puzzle

ACROSS

1 Blaze 5 Insulting remark 9 Bush 14 Gehrig & Rawls 15 Fifty percent 16 Hut or mansion 17 Flabbergasted 19 Acting parts 20 “Till There __ You”; song for the Beatles 21 Conceal 22 2-footed beings 23 Male sheep 24 Seldom seen 26 Pinches

pennies 30 Good-natured 35 Tiny fruit 36 Up to the task 38 Tilt 39 Misplaces 40 Fixed charge 41 Actor

Eastwood 42 Trip __;

stumble on 43 Three-__ salad 44 Therefore 45 Sonora shawls 47 Walk unsteadily 49 Allows 51 “Grand __

Opry” 52 Gift from a

crocheter 56 Accurate 58 Monogram for

inventor Bell 61 Punctuation

mark 62 Realistic 64 Cease-fire 65 Costa __ 66 Mr. Gingrich 67 Looks for 68 __-and-shut

case 69 Inquires

DOWN

1 Defect 2 Sioux City, __ 3 Regrets 4 Suffix for lion or

host 5 Most widely served seafood in the U.S. 6 Praise 7 Stomach woe 8 Brother of JFK 9 Sharp shrill cry 10 Basketball goal 11 Bylaw 12 Secondhand 13 Mrs. Truman 18 London’s river 22 Soft cheese 23 TV’s Geraldo 25 Woody and Tim 26 Songs for one 27 Piece of garlic 28 Staircase piece 29 Least risky 31 Assert without

proof 32 Human __;

person 33 Warrior’s spear 34 Go into 37 Actress Arthur 41 Alpine home 43 “__ there, done

that” 46 LAX arrivals 48 Bird with a

colorful bill 50 Undress 52 Goes on stage 53 Golf course cry 54 Adhesive 55 Leave with a

pawnbroker 57 Marathon 58 Highest cards 59 Stare

openmouthed 60 Lunch orders,

for short 62 Expert 63 __ nutshell;

briefly