TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Street edge

5 Exasperates

9 Chic’s opposite

14 Emmy’s relative

15 Caroler’s tune

16 Pointless

17 “-- Lisa”

18 Motion picture

19 Horse’s bedding

20 Clergy member

22 Land, to Caesar

24 Directed

26 Served the wine

29 Jungle noises

31 Had one’s say

33 Scoundrels

36 Takes legal action

38 Copy-machine supply

39 Part of mpg

40 Autobiography

42 Thurman of “The Golden Bowl”

43 Originate

45 Positive

46 Enumeration

47 Noiseless

49 Flood barrier

51 Filled with joy

53 Comes to terms

57 Non-social person

59 Home turnover

60 Dinette piece

63 Perchance

65 Kind of molding

66 River transport

67 Container weight

68 Manage for oneself

69 Get up

70 Lost traction

71 Unravel

DOWN

1 Free tickets

2 Lusitania sinker (hyph.)

3 Salon offering

4 Safari aides

5 Grow

6 Louis XIV, e.g.

7 Dover’s county

8 Catch some z’s

9 Upsets

10 A Great Lake

11 Armed conflict

12 Double helix

13 Longbow wood

21 Spanish gold

23 Tigger’s friend

25 Rock band musts

27 Boredom

28 Regards as

30 City near Inchon

32 Mild expletive

33 Form 1040 experts, briefly

34 Hawk’s refuge

35 Bore a hole

37 Colts’ fathers

40 Counseled

41 Returned to a former position

44 Marine mammal (2 wds.)

46 Excuses from work (2 wds.)

48 Kayo count

50 Monsieur’s summer

52 Shoulder muscles

54 Pub brew

55 Helen, in Spanish

56 Like watermelons

58 Not bogus

60 Extra email recipients

61 Fashion accessory

62 Miscellany

64 Mr., in Bombay