TODAY'S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Plaster 7 Bark shrilly 10 Nasty cut 14 Slow down 15 Uris hero 16 1899 gold-rush town 17 Boombox sound 18 — de mer 19 Field of study 20 Mira or Betelgeuse (2

wds.) 23 Glossy 26 Cries at a circus 27 Leafy vegetable 28 “— Lang Syne” 29 ONU’s hometown 30 Hen or mare 31 Dixie fighter 32 — Lanka 33 Played with a pencil 37 Way back when 38 Not prepaid 39 Miners dig it 40 Nest-egg letters 41 Kid’s question (2 wds.) 43 Soho co. 44 Garden-pond fish 45 Literary miscellany 46 Overhead railways 47 Some narcs 48 Encouraging look 51 Andy Capp’s wife 52 Comb contents 53 Wild orchid (2 wds.) 56 Pound sound 57 Law, to Caesar 58 Removed a knot 62 Nights before 63 Ja, to Jacques 64 On the double 65 Change decor 66 Menacing sound 67 Windows operating —

DOWN

1 Almost-grads 2 Lunar new year 3 Navaho foe 4 Worked with jade 5 Spooky noise 6 Garbage bin output 7 Honda rival 8 Burnoose wearers 9 Tablet 10 Ground, as teeth 11 Major artery 12 Do finger painting 13 Got the news 21 Cloud-seeding

compound 22 Bounced back 23 Vaughan or Miles 24 “Hasta —!” 25 Macaroni shape 29 Cafe attraction 30 Arranges 32 Tea cakes 33 Blob of mayo 34 Compare 35 Form a butte 36 Dagwood’s pooch 42 Trinidad music 46 Potion 47 Strong points 48 More crafty 49 Writer — Binchy 50 Ran in neutral 51 — -de-lis 52 Jane Fonda’s dad 54 Wade through 55 Baby seals 59 Ego ending 60 When Paris sizzles 61 Abbot