TODAY'S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 — cuisine 6 Two-timer 9 At an impasse 14 Broadway

backer 15 Pay dirt 16 Wyoming range 17 Tall flower 19 Starry prefix 20 — day now 21 Nave neighbor 22 Icy rain 23 Close friends 25 Garden green 26 Divide in two 29 Brood 31 Throws ash 32 Gridiron gain 36 Hoedown

honeys 37 To date 38 Fluctuate 40 More apt 43 Oval-nest

builder 45 Angry disputes 46 Stamens

produce it 47 Beyond

zealous 50 Vulcan’s forge 51 Element no. 5 52 Hindu attire 54 Youth org. 57 Cube inventor 58 Find, finally

(2 wds.) 61 Ring-shaped

reef 62 911 responder 63 Transparently

clear 64 Of few words 65 Mao — -tung 66 Substantial

DOWN

1 Tee-hee kin

(hyph.) 2 Familiar auth. 3 Threatening, as weather 4 Util. bill 5 Famous

cathedral town 6 Henhouses 7 Orbit segments 8 Hockey feint 9 Hid away 10 Physicist

Nikola — 11 Out-and-out 12 Like baked

apples 13 Muscle cramp 18 Quits marching 23 Soft drink

brand 24 Not delay 25 ER practice 26 “Ain’t Too

Proud To —” 27 Mesopotamia,

now 28 Kirk’s

helmsman 29 Fort —, Florida 30 Nose-bag bit 33 Teresa’s home 34 Liverpool poky 35 — Stanley

Gardner 37 Longbow wood 39 Hankering 41 Rustle 42 Ended a bout

early 43 Important

nerve 44 Prez after

Jimmy 47 Mail carrier’s

beat 48 Garden feature 49 Fixes potatoes 50 Use Artgum 51 Sitter’s bane 52 Dele canceler 53 Sofa ends 54 Pedro’s mouth 55 “Hot Lips”

actress 56 Griffith or

Devine 59 Dutch airline 60 Rightful