CROSSWORD FOR FRIDAY

ACROSS

1 Basilica area

5 Untidy

10 Large sedan

14 — — for the money

15 Dull surface

16 Imported cheese

17 Malarkey

18 Skin softener

19 Roman marketplaces

20 Garden mollusk

22 Jesse Ventura, once

24 Ember

27 Rounded handle

28 Wonder

32 Future officer

36 Search engine find

37 Pleasure boat

39 Rascal

40 Nile wader

42 A drinking toast

44 “Fish Magic” artist

45 Cracker spreads

47 Clay-target sport

49 — Arbor, Mich.

50 Kind of thief

51 Acute mental discernment

53 The very essence

56 Twig juncture

57 Excited

61 Pack rat

65 Ambition

66 Whitish gems

69 Arid

70 Throw hard

71 “Walk Away —”

72 Texas, to Yves

73 Places of refuge

74 Military physician

75 Be too fond

DOWN

1 Robins' beaks

2 Well-known auth.

3 Entry permit

4 System of values

5 XXI times C

6 Flair for music 7 Seethe 8 Severely simple 9 Sheba, today 10 Cultural district of Paris (2 wds.) 11 Rock star, maybe 12 Paddock occupant 13 Actor Epps 21 House sites 23 Wind indicator 25 Runs a fever 26 Gets a load of 28 Witty remarks 29 Of cities

30 In crowd 31 Small alcoves 33 Tibet's — Lama 34 Occurrence 35 Smaller than small 38 Joyous outburst 41 Shore birds

43 Toy building block 46 Mini-play

48 Little kids

52 Came to an end

54 Blizzard

55 Indian dwelling

57 Turkish official

58 Late afternoon

59 A songbird

60 McNally partner

62 Turn thumbs down on

63 Was, to Ovid

64 Solar plexus

67 Luau souvenir

68 Just a —!