TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “By —!” 5 Wee drink 9 Wave down 13 Inkling 14 Sheer fabric 15 Pinch 16 Fact fudger 17 Moving about 18 Caroler’s tune 19 Money handler 21 Zig’s opposite 22 Famous spouter 23 Pashas 25 Bodies of water 27 Cobbler’s job 31 Charm 35 Alma mater visitor 36 Tibet explorer Alexandra David- — 38 Kind of coverage 39 Dawdle 40 Swamp critter 42 Rear, to Popeye 43 Madrid art gallery 46 Count tree rings 47 Roofing piece 48 Drive bananas 50 Separated 52 Fixed the table 54 Galaxy unit 55 Indigo dye 58 Fellow 60 Wholly absorbed 64 Mongolian desert 65 Four-bagger 67 Mystique 68 Fifi’s friend 69 Kuwaiti leaders 70 News article 71 Lipstick shades 72 Catastrophic 73 Muzzle

DOWN

1 Spurn 2 Comics dog 3 Scaloppine base 4 Nobleman’s domain 5 Fancy parties 6 Hotel name 7 Rap sheet info 8 Combined 9 Diplomatic plus 10 Booty 11 Pharaoh’s god 12 Big celebration 14 Changing 20 Electric fish 24 Golfer Sam — 26 Prepare to fire 27 Designer — Lauren 28 A moon of Jupiter 29 Diner freebie 30 Hokkaido sandals 32 Robin of balladry 33 Biathlon need 34 Alike, as socks 37 Yoga position 41 Lease signers 44 Dawdles 45 She-bear in Seville 47 Lay of the land 49 Sounded bored 51 Karate level 53 Italian cathedrals 55 Petri-dish contents 56 Iditarod terminus 57 Scholarly notation 59 Norse giant 61 Traffic stopper 62 Veep’s boss 63 Not apt to bite 66 Sooner than anon