CROSSWORD FOR WEDNESDAY

ACROSS

1 Eva or Zsa Zsa

6 Wilcox or Raines

10 Wheat husk

14 Fiber plant

15 Large carnivore

16 Type of wolf

17 Viking letters

18 Say clearly

20 Gave with ill will

22 Disconnected

23 Very, in Veracruz

24 Wall hanging

25 Laughing

29 Swindle

34 Dressed to the —

35 Gridiron

36 Unit of corn

37 Technical sch.

38 King-sized spoon

39 Ancient empire

40 Curly's friend

41 Entered data

42 Portends

43 Negotiator

45 Pinball palace

46 Hectic place

47 Comanche kin

48 Of the bishop of Rome

51 Hawaiian crop

57 Skin softener

59 Gave out sparingly

60 — Russo, of “Tin Cup”

61 Jaipur princess

62 Tire surface

63 “Watermark” singer

64 Otherwise

65 Exhilarating

DOWN

1 Outfit

2 The chills

3 Big — theory

4 Done with

5 Interview musts

6 Poem of lament

7 Queue

8 Blaring 9 Abby's sister

10 Cottagecheese-filled pancake

11 Interstate

12 Not for

13 Shortfall

19 All better

21 Unsuccessful venture

24 Up to the task

25 Soul

26 Child

27 Auto-racing family

28 Hardened, as cement

29 Pillow filler

30 Blend

31 “The Prisoner of —”

32 Added brandy

33 Computer command

35 Dunaway of films

38 Engineering toy

39 Winter Games grp.

41 Hillock

42 Width 44 Flowering shrub

45 Had brunch

47 Deal with a knot

48 Dumas senior

49 Parson's exclamation

50 Big pet

51 Ring out

52 Quaint lodgings

53 Skin opening

54 Petition

55 Soft metal

56 Swirling water

58 Vexation