TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Make flour finer 5 Wild party 10 “Fernando” group 14 Adams or McClurg 15 Birdie beater 16 Intuit 17 Teacher’s roster 18 Meddle 19 Eleventh-hour 20 Pulled a scam 22 Make camp 24 Kind of instinct 25 Width of a cir. 26 Tight-knit team 29 Outshine 32 Toss here and there 36 Libretto feature 37 Police action 39 Ait, on the Seine 40 Atlantic menace?

(2 wds.) 43 Shirt-pocket stain 44 Cheesy snacks 45 Term paper abbr. 46 Schnoz-related 48 Hither and — 49 It’s unfathomable 50 Cameo role 52 Barbecue treat 53 Finite 57 Hit head-on 61 Sudden foray 62 Gambling mecca 64 Persia, nowadays 65 Give the eye 66 Stops up 67 Banned thing

(hyph.) 68 Non-verbal OKs 69 Shangri-La site 70 Chew on DOWN 1 Feudal worker 2 Goddess’s statue 3 Dossier 4 Wire 5 Assail 6 Make shore 7 Way back when 8 No neatnik, this 9 Body temperature 10 Buoyant 11 Swain 12 — -carotene 13 He played Obi-Wan 21 Pool stick 23 Panoramic view 26 Hut 27 Ice hockey locale 28 Lairds’ daggers 29 Hepburn and — 30 Lawn products

brand 31 Argentine dictator 33 Beatles’ “Eleanor” 34 Mystery writer

— Peters 35 Uproots? 37 Town in Oklahoma 38 Mom’s girl 41 Dark 42 Mouse activity 47 Stays a while 49 Call in sick 51 Lure 52 Perch 53 Hubbard of sci-fi

(2 wds.) 54 Bard’s villain 55 Springlike 56 Surrealist painter 57 Hamster’s digs 58 Rust component 59 Elcar or Wynter 60 Sufficient, in verse 63 Young wolf