TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Hardy green

5 Zoo attraction

9 Gave medication

14 Coup d’-

15 Forehead

16 Bert’s “Sesame Street” pal

17 Olden times

18 Parks or Bonheur

19 Laissez- -

20 Plain

22 Contaminated

24 Centering points

26 Tripod part

27 Kind of chop

30 Zoom-in shots (hyph.)

35 Boxer -Griffith

36 Persia, nowadays

37 Brecak

38 Harness part

39 Seafarer

42 Memo acronym

43 Got older

45 Dream

46 Unfamiliar

48 Cellar

50 Banded stones

51 Green seed

52 Kept

54 Grants

58 Competing at an auction

62 Rodeo gear

63 Pierce portrayer

65 Anon’s companion

66 Nature walk

67 Toe pain

68 Steakhouse order

69 Briny

70 Auto rod

71 Deceive with charm

DOWN

1 Answers

2 Up above

3 Pasternak woman

4 Perpetual

5 Scrape

6 Liable

7 Goddess of dawn

8 Flatten a fly

9 Won’t obey

10 Warm colors

11 Angry mood

12 Gael republic

13 Achievement

21 Family tree, to some

23 Without help

25 Movie-sto-be

27 Food on a skewer

28 Spanish girlfriend

29 Observances

31 Narrow road

32 Not suitable

33 Check endorser

34 Goes around and around

36 Metallic element

40 In the future

41 Stormed about

44 Down payment

47 Painters’ gear

49 Only

50 Fly

53 Pop star Paula -

54 Aardvark’s diet

55 Roman meeting places

56 Paddock youngster

57 Long story

59 Russian ruler

60 Detective Wolfe

61 Waxed

64 Deli salmon