CROSSWORD FOR WEDNESDAY

ACROSS

1 Zenith opposite

6 Lobster pincer

10 Crow's nest cry

14 Have one's say

15 Hurry

16 Timber wolf

17 Restaurant handouts

18 Patrick's domain

19 Stern opposite

20 Disentangle

22 Flip-chart stand

23 Red-waxed cheese

24 Happy outcome

26 Stand-___ (substitutes)

29 Hero's tale

31 Calendar abbr.

32 Janitor's tool

33 Forest grazer

34 Postal meter units

38 CEO, often

40 Same old grind

42 Eject

43 Woodworking chore

46 Dog-paddled

49 Harper Valley org.

50 Cote murmur

51 Pocket flaw

52 Droop

53 Picnic hampers

57 Coal seams

59 Minstrels' instruments

60 Clinic staffer

65 Norse god

66 Hit the horn

67 Radium discoverer

68 Stratagem

69 Landscape

70 Stand for

71 Found a buyer

72 In addition

73 Sci-fi weapon

DOWN

1 Iditarod terminus

2 Peak

3 By — of hard work

4 Toughen up

5 Dwelled

6 Smoother

7 Milk, to Yves

8 Ranch measure

9 Minuscule

10 “The Godfather” actor (2 wds.)

11 Barn dweller

12 Band members

13 Caterwauls

21 — Canaveral

22 Brownish tint

25 “The X-Files” concern

26 Urchins

27 Director — Ephron

28 Shoot forth

30 Squeeze

35 Tea holders

36 This, in Tijuana

37 Doe's mate

39 Became ill

41 Small lumber (3 wds.)

44 Thumbs-down votes

45 Understood

47 Stein fillers

48 Annual exam

53 Big windstorms

54 Video's complement

55 Quiet

56 Make a mess of

58 Cousteau invention

61 Garden implements

62 Spring bloom

63 Candy striper

64 Poet's contraction

66 Rural elec. provider