CROSSWORD FOR FRIDAY
ACROSS
1 Getting close 5 Hangs back 9 Foretelling 13 Shrink’s reply (2 wds.) 14 Excuse me! 15 Road rally 16 Mortgage, e.g. 17 Conjurer’s first word? 18 Postkindergarten 19 Way to the top? 21 Movie-lot locale 22 Liverpool poky 23 White wader 25 Whom Zeus visited as a swan 27 Night light 31 Praying — 35 Eager 36 Clingy fabric 38 Do chestnuts 39 Einstein’s hometown 40 Hero’s horse 42 Pasture murmur 43 Sherpa’s land 46 Gambling stake 47 Wild tusker 48 More pale 50 Air Supply’s genre (2 wds.) 52 Prepare a shotgun 54 Pharaoh’s river 55 Burlap fiber 58 Ottoman ruler, once 60 Locust tree 64 Out of range 65 Sink 67 Family men 68 Thank you, in Kyoto 69 Like helium 70 Tiring expedition 71 NFL broadcaster 72 Prefix for “trillion” 73 Bad actors
DOWN
1 Mental power 2 Three oceans touch it 3 Marsh grass 4 Patching up 5 London lav 6 Flight routes 7 Thin porridge 8 Word with solar or nervous 9 Kitchen herb 10 Actress — Powers 11 Parrot 12 Mr. Diamond 14 Horror-film sounds 20 Subside 24 Yuletide figure 26 — es Salaam 27 — Kea volcano 28 Stares rudely 29 Pep 30 Demeanors 32 Forbidden 33 Abraham’s son 34 — raving mad 37 Wyoming range 41 Rebellious 44 Pilot’s flap 45 August kid, maybe 47 Scope 49 Animal in a warren 51 Best medicine? 53 Colonial diplomat Silas — 55 Green mineral 56 Foreign visitors? 57 Pack firmly 59 North Sea tributary 61 Dear, in Italy 62 Footnote word 63 Grills, maybe 66 Rollover subj.