CROSSWORD FOR TUESDAY

ACROSS

1 Fleece 5 Whitish gems 10 Multitude 14 Dry watercourse 15 K, to a jeweler 16 Constructed 17 Gridder — Alonzo Stagg 18 Zoo heavyweight 19 Straw in the wind 20 Xerxes ruled here 22 Loch Ness site 24 Part of SST 25 Did garden work 26 Toledo locale 28 Kin of argon 32 Municipality 35 Diver’s milieu 37 City on the Rio Grande 38 Pub pint 39 Woodwind 41 Eighteen-wheeler 42 Show again 44 Sci-fi computer 45 Celts, to Romans 46 Alaskan pole 47 Writer Kellerman 49 Slackens off 53 On both feet 57 Told secretly 60 Scarcely 61 Relating to the mouth 62 Bicker 64 The Phantom of the Opera 65 Land parcel 66 “Ninotchka” name 67 Antler prong 68 Diplomat’s need 69 Moderated 70 Arms the alarm

DOWN

1 Trades 2 Antique brooch 3 Dress up 4 NASA’s — Control 5 Slimy vegetable 6 Hogwash! 7 Get up 8 Spear 9 Tolerated 10 Fume 11 Sand mandala builder 12 Churchill successor 13 Proceed 21 Freud, to himself 23 Waco resident 25 Troubles 27 “— —, old chap” 29 Caligula’s nephew 30 Garfield’s housemate 31 Holiday quaffs 32 Lemony-tasting 33 Dairy-case item 34 Shed tears 36 Pale gray 37 “Damn Yankees” vamp 39 Familiar deer 40 Lummoxes 43 Spring growth 45 Black-footed critters 48 Senate vote 50 Saying 51 — incognita 52 Goes very slowly 54 Chilling 55 Dirty Harry portrayer 56 Tots 57 Layer 58 Willy or Shamu 59 DEA operative 60 Necklace part 63 Ouray’s tribe