CROSSWORD FOR THURSDAY

ACROSS

1 Traffic stopper 5 Roost 10 Typewriter type 14 Tot’s transport 15 Buddha’s land 16 Jezebel’s spouse 17 Munro’s pen name 18 Main points 19 Drift here and yon 20 Put in office 22 Fled 24 Pooh’s pal 25 Back talk 26 Taverns 30 Adorns 34 Lighter- — -air 35 Top performers 37 Salad fish 38 Item in a poker pot 39 Yale athlete 40 Excavation 41 Pay dirt 43 Soft drink brand 45 Long sentence 46 Not subject to change 48 Prepared bread dough 50 Decompose 51 Stocky horse 52 Pinball palaces 56 Determination 60 Stuck-up 61 “The Pink Panther” actor 63 Lurch 64 Major Hoople’s word 65 Journeys 66 Poetic twilights 67 Corp. biggies 68 Good judgment 69 Kind of straits

DOWN

1 Vaulted recess 2 River in Asia 3 Carry off 4 Greek vowel 5 Dove cousins 6 Novelist — Bagnold 7 Hwys. 8 Make a footnote 9 Major inconveniences 10 Castle wall 11 Flapjack chain 12 Underground chamber 13 Sacked out 21 As well as 23 England’s FBI 26 Pasture entrance 27 Who gives — —! 28 Magna cum — 29 Hard metal 30 Spry 31 Son of Venus 32 Switchblade 33 Overstuffed 36 Jungfrau 42 Chores 43 Inventors’ protections 44 Fragrant stick 45 Worked hard 47 Get sleepy 49 Daughter of Hyperion 52 With, to monsieur 53 Uncontrolled fury 54 Ta-ta, in Turin 55 Your Majesty 56 Agents, for short 57 Clothier — Strauss 58 Turn aside 59 Failing that 62 French wine