THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Old storyteller
5 __ value
9 Worthless stuff
14 Eager
15 Muslim community leader
16 Time of one’s life
17 Pops
20 Female bighorn
21 Ensign __ Crusher, Wil Wheaton’s “Star Trek: TNG” role
22 Tasteless gruel
23 Trio from Don Giovanni?
24 Flow slowly
26 Manage, with “out”
27 Parachute attachment
31 Like “it,” grammatically
33 Pops
36 Note from the office
37 Buddy
38 Mild Dutch cheese
42 Pops
47 Hardened
50 Replace on the schedule
51 Poetic contraction
52 Christmas pudding fruit
55 Take in the groceries?
56 Seal-hunting swimmer
58 Protective charm
60 46-Down work
63 Pops
66 Mound
67 Great start?
68 Ceremonial grandeur
69 Changed course, nautically
70 Worshipped image
71 Long shot, in hoops lingo
DOWN
1 Sheep herder in a 1995 Best Picture nominee
2 Swear
3 Come to the surface
4 Epa-banned insecticide
5 Skillful handling
6 8th-century B.C. Hebrew prophet
7 Western burger franchise __ Jr.
8 Bob Hope, often, for the Oscars ceremony
9 Turn red, say
10 Supreme singer?
11 Current source
12 One of four on a par-4
13 Metal-cutting machine
18 Proprietor
19 Nocturnal scavenger
23 Represent in cipher
25 Part of rpm
27 “That’s the guy!”
28 First-rate player
29 Sleep cycle
30 Drains of power
32 Early online forum
34 Fellow
35 Spot on a screen
39 Hydroelectric power source
40 Sound system equipment
41 Came upon
43 Mountain in the Tour de France route
44 Subject of the biopic “I’m Not There”
45 Guided by a statement of faith
46 “The Poetry of earth is never dead” poet
47 Short and solid
48 Albania’s capital
49 Mortgage provision
53 Taste sensation
54 Subtle, as a shade
57 Willing partner
59 Toy company with theme parks
60 Reminder to take out the trash?
61 British title
62 Best Game, e.g.
64 Passé
65 Get off the fence