TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mongolian desert 5 Jewelry box 10 Apportion

14 Verve

15 Astrologer’s scales 16 Funny Bombeck 17 Housing expense 18 Sphere of influence 19 Ta-ta in Turin 20 Contemporary 22 Historical periods 24 Tart fruit

28 Century plant 31 Mouths, in zoology 32 Cravat cousin 36 Senate attire

37 Like cloudless nights 39 Literary medley 40 Type of desk 42 Facial feature 44 Altar vow (2 wds.) 45 Banished

47 Black bird 48 Egyptian dam 50 Poetic contraction 51 Brick bakers

52 Was made of 55 Shark tagalong 58 Hole for a shoelace 62 Ship’s boom 63 Scratchy

67 Renoir model 68 Marble streak 69 Physicist Marie — 70 Song refrains 71 Markers

72 Burn slightly 73 Bird-feeder treat

DOWN

1 Bug

2 Low-fat spread 3 Wedding —

4 Lull or gap

5 Lairds’ households 6 “She Done — Wrong” 7 Wane

8 Title of respect, in India 9 Spud

10 Fake drakes

11 Stoltz or Idle

12 Far East nanny 13 Thailand neighbor

21 — Dawn Chong 23 Beseeches 25 Some TV dinners 26 Bikini top 27 Breadwinners 28 Open-air lobbies 29 Wares

30 Softly lit 33 Wassailers’ tune 34 — rings 35 Compares notes 37 Chicago White — 38 Retina cell

41 Male voice 43 Marine spears 46 Don Ho’s neckwear 49 Potential oaks 51 Sardine-can opener 53 DEA agents 54 Snicker (hyph.) 55 Host’s plea 56 Thrust-and-parry

sword

57 Principal

59 Kauai feast 60 Threshold 61 Challenge 64 Garcon’s yes 65 Coffee brewer 66 Temporary job