CROSSWORD FOR WEDNESDAY
ACROSS 1 Mongolian desert 5 Jewelry box 10 Apportion 14 Verve 15 Astrologer’s scales 16 Funny Bombeck 17 Housing expense 18 Sphere of influence 19 Ta-ta in Turin 20 Contemporary 22 Historical periods 24 Tart fruit 28 Century plant 31 Mouths, in zoology 32 Cravat cousin 36 Senate attire 37 Like cloudless nights 39 Literary medley 40 Type of desk 42 Facial feature 44 Altar vow (2 wds.) 45 Banished 47 Black bird 48 Egyptian dam 50 Poetic contraction 51 Brick bakers 52 Was made of 55 Shark tagalong 58 Hole for a shoelace 62 Ship’s boom 63 Scratchy 67 Renoir model 68 Marble streak 69 Physicist Marie — 70 Song refrains 71 Markers 72 Burn slightly 73 Bird-feeder treat 2 Low-fat spread 3 Wedding — 4 Lull or gap 5 Lairds’ households 6 “She Done — Wrong” 7 Wane 8 Title of respect, in India 9 Spud 10 Fake drakes 11 Stoltz or Idle 12 Far East nanny 13 Thailand neighbor 21 — Dawn Chong 23 Beseeches 25 Some TV dinners 26 Bikini top 27 Breadwinners 28 Open-air lobbies 29 Wares 30 Softly lit 33 Wassailers’ tune 34 — rings 35 Compares notes 37 Chicago White — 38 Retina cell 41 Male voice 43 Marine spears 46 Don Ho’s neckwear 49 Potential oaks 51 Sardine-can opener 53 DEA agents 54 Snicker (hyph.) 55 Host’s plea 56 Thrust-and-parry sword 57 Principal 59 Kauai feast 60 Threshold 61 Challenge 64 Garcon’s yes 65 Coffee brewer 66 Temporary job