CROSSWORD FOR MONDAY

ACROSS

1 Soft mineral 5 Host with a book club 10 Floor model 14 Film director — Kazan 15 Tasty topping 16 Verve 17 — transit 18 Have inadequate regard for 20 Concise 22 Sales pitches 23 Grad-school exams 24 Pharaoh, now 26 Cal Tech rival 27 Arty locale 30 Rock plants 34 Not right or wrong 35 Basilica part 36 Chow down 37 Actress — Russo 38 Brick bakers 40 Ms. Bombeck 41 Self-esteem 42 Covers 43 Smaller 45 Dims 47 Marshiest 48 Urge on 49 Candle 50 Saguaros 53 Feeling low 54 Labyrinths 58 Disconnected 61 Sedaka or Simon 62 Flaxseed pod 63 Kiwi language 64 Rhett's hangout 65 Shaft 66 Lock or curl 67 Knocked off

DOWN

1 Short-term worker, for short 2 Range in Asia 3 Memory jogger 4 Soft wool 5 Tulsa sch. 6 Straw hat 7 Not pale 8 Poker pair 9 The lady 10 Shortage 11 Jazzy Fitzgerald 12 Claw badly 13 Teller's stack 19 Express in words 21 Arizona city 25 Dairy chore 26 Make a false move 27 Divulged 28 Frat letter 29 Esteem 30 Hosp. staffer 31 Like “The Twilight Zone” 32 Appellations 33 Commence 35 Hirt and Gore 39 Freudian subjects 40 Contest hopefuls 42 Authentic 44 News article 46 Kind of drum 47 Timid beachgoers 49 Lake near Reno 50 Where Havana is 51 Strong as — — 52 Stock option 53 “Lion King” villain 55 Ardor 56 Limerick locale 57 Picnic fare 59 Lb. or tsp. 60 Insult, slangily