today's crossword

ACROSS

1 Blow gently 5 Nature’s

bandage 9 Dugout VIP 12 Sandwich

cookie 13 Utter chaos 15 Salt or smoke 16 Ms. Raines of

film 17 Plato’s last

letter 18 Vitality 19 Lead-tin alloy 21 One of the

basics 23 Overfeed 25 Bone-dry 26 Sticker stat 29 Crater edges 31 Hair problem 35 Yalie 36 Lowly laborers 38 Hone a razor 39 Track meet

event 41 Unflinching 43 Incites Rover 44 Chip maker 46 Francs’ replacer 48 “Little Red

Book” author 49 Beset 51 Some bills 52 Shade tree 53 Be a bookworm 55 Cpls.’ bosses 57 Fridge and

range 61 Fly the coop 65 Hideous giant 66 Coal strata 68 Not mention 69 Sorrel or bay 70 Tech talk 71 Baja snack 72 Tumble the

wash 73 Comes to a halt 74 “Faster — a

speeding bullet”

DOWN

1 Heartaches 2 Guthrie of

music 3 Toppled over 4 Insect eaters 5 Kind of

nightgowns 6 Trippet 7 State definitely 8 Fake 9 Stubborn sort 10 The “G” of GTO 11 Lease 14 Student at

Annapolis 15 Bonds securely 20 Marshal Wyatt

— 22 Bank offerings,

for short 24 Wax theatrical 26 TV and radio 27 Blueprints 28 Main points 30 Rhino nose 32 Stubborn dirt 33 Not express 34 — salts 37 Names on

pedigrees 40 Cheer up 42 Overcrowds 45 “Instead of”

word 47 Mach 2 fliers of

yore 50 Insect stage 54 Name in

tractors 56 F. — Fitzgerald 57 River crossing 58 Stravinsky or

Sikorsky 59 Fracture finder

(hyph.) 60 Token 62 Memsahib’s

nanny 63 Typewriter type 64 Harrow rival 67 Drowse off