TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Rare minerals

5 Volleyball smash 10 Harden 14 Drop 15 Not spelled out 16 Two-piece cookie 17 Artifice 18 Comic strip queen 19 Hindu mystic 20 Found 22 Mork’s superior

23 A thousand G’s

24 Cassius Clay

25 Cost 29 Bylines 33 Marauds 34 Industry, plus

36 French I verb 37 Electronics mfr.

38 Tough tan twill 39 German article 40 Sicilian spouter

42 You can dig it

43 Dance band 45 Humdingers

47 Thinner 49 Sitcom ET 50 Dust cloth 51 Mom’s brother 54 Municipal statute 60 Royal address

61 Opera highlights 62 Yule song 63 Director -- Kazan 64 Convention sites 65 Currier’s partner 66 Rookie socialites 67 Dumpster locale 68 Home, to Jose

DOWN

1 Skirt panel 2 Big birds 3 Fine spray 4 Gave off vapor

5 Kiosks 6 Sanskrit dialect

7 Seals a deal 8 -- and kin 9 Airport info 10 Teen escapade 11 Aphrodite’s child 12 Toy building block 13 Cut of meat 21 Waste containers 22 “Grand -Opry”

24 A Guthrie 25 Bungled 26 Craft knife (hyph.) 27 Keyboard instrument 28 Social mores 29 Theaters 30 Things on a list

31 Chief’s people 32 Pedro’s honorific 35 Fossil fuel 38 Kitchen VIP 41 Flowering shrubs 43 “Slither” actor

44 Kind of gardening 46 Seine vista 48 Prim and proper 51 Exploited 52 Cairo’s river 53 Nursery need

54 Kind of hygiene 55 Tiny stream 56 Broad valley

57 Smoked salmon 58 High notes 59 Designer -Schiaparelli 61 Gleeful cry