TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Most venerable

7 Dawber or Shriver

10 Manner

14 Riches

15 Tempe inst.

16 Arab prince

17 Bedouin’s domain

18 Confidant

19 Audition tape

20 Store up (2 wds.)

22 Got stuck

24 Beach location

27 Dance or sculpture

29 Indifferent

30 Altar area

31 Springy

33 House mem.

34 Furniture wood

35 Storage places

39 Sourdough’s strike

40 201, to Claudius

41 Barbie’s friend

42 Poe’s “Annabel --”

43 Dugong cousin

45 Limb

46 Pollution org.

47 Root vegetable

49 Rolling --(rich)

50 Rocker -John

53 Late evening

54 Pothole locales

55 Lifted

57 Spurred on

59 Help a hoodlum

60 Airport code for O’hare

62 Fly a plane

66 Erosion loss

67 Friction easer

68 Type of tiger

69 Flying piscivore

70 “Simpsons” bartender

71 Yawning

DOWN

1 Startled cries

2 Open meadow

3 Morse syllable

4 Fly by

5 Swagger

6 The one over there

7 Ancient scrolls

8 Quiet -- -mouse

9 Ponder

10 Interferes

11 Frat letter

12 Small coins

13 Carve a canyon

21 Most perverse

23 Rectangular

24 Bounce back

25 Kind of house or hat

26 Quaking tree

28 Gridiron action

31 Indiana cager

32 TV deletion

34 Gasoline rating

36 Ms. Verdugo

37 Body temperature

38 Installs in office

44 Early missionary

48 Sewing kit item

49 An antiseptic

50 Rub out

51 Work

52 Connection (hyph.)

54 Carouse

56 Destiny

58 Yaks

61 Pedro’s river

63 Era

64 Kind of dance

65 England’s Isle of --