CROSSWORD FOR TUESDAY

ACROSS

1 Rock bottom

6 Pointed tools

10 — du jour

14 Scavenger

15 You, once

16 Flooring piece

17 Goes first

18 Watchfulness

20 Got some shuteye

22 Type of pasta

23 Many millennia

24 Gael republic

26 Pina — (rum drinks)

28 Unusual quality

31 Cold and windy

32 Geologic division

33 Neon and nitrogen

35 Beach location

39 Garden green

41 Copenhagen natives

43 Detroit NFLer

44 Put in office

46 Matterhorn echo

48 Round mark

49 Dull routine

51 Islamic fasting month

53 Salad garnish

57 Warmhearted

58 That fellow's

59 Unrefined metals

61 Goes to the bottom

64 Find out for sure

67 Gala

69 Alarm

70 Raison d'—

71 Brownish pigment

72 Botches up

73 Two-star (hyph.)

74 Banal

DOWN

1 Red Wings org.

2 Skippers' okays

3 Agreement

4 Truly!

5 Speaking hoarsely

6 Dune buggy kin

7 Zoom past 8 Valid reasoning 9 Beau 10 School org. 11 Like notebook paper 12 Bauxite giant 13 They're almost grown 19 Fragrant shrub

21 Tire necessity 25 Literary work 27 Army no-show, briefly

28 Aloud

29 Valley

30 Mister, in Madrid

32 Barely manage

34 Roomy vehicle

36 Verdi's princess

37 Right away

38 Cable channel

40 Pantyhose color

42 18-wheelers

45 Instruct 47 Frilliest

50 Viennese desserts

52 Mile High City

53 Rub

54 Stage platform

55 Golden statuette

56 “Peachy keen!”

60 Jagger and McCartney

62 Military cap

63 Fit of pique

65 Uh cousins

66 Prefix meaning “recent”

68 — kwon do