TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Flip through 5 Ignoble 9 Cooking spray 12 Handle, slangily 13 Kudrow and Bonet 15 Meltingwatch artist 16 Aardvark’s diet 17 Extreme 18 Vivacity 19 Bedevil 21 Ignoring rudely 23 Barracks offs. 25 Laird or lassie 26 Swimsuit half 29 — monster 31 Anyone home? (hyph.) 35 Job-ad letters 36 Take potshots (at) 38 Warble 39 Orpheus’ harp 41 Tackles a bone 43 Fishtail 44 Lobster orders 46 She vanted to be alone 48 Morn counterpart 49 Rains ice 51 Bloke’s streetcar 52 Wildlife refuge 53 California’s — Woods 55 Urban problem 57 Stressed 61 Choir selections 65 Burrito morsel 66 Perpetrator’s need 68 Tender meat 69 A Muppet 70 Poe quoted one 71 “Only Time” singer 72 Sacred snake of Eygpt 73 Masculine principle 74 Garden soil

DOWN

1 Purse closer 2 Long reed 3 Oz. and tsp. 4 Twig-andmud homes 5 Speaking rashly 6 Feel crummy 7 Mach 1 breakers 8 Pulls down 9 Sanskrit dialect 10 Alda or Ladd 11 — vase (precious porcelain) 14 Pert 15 Bill payers 20 Future turtles 22 Mukluk 24 Open-back shoe 26 Wallops 27 Queenly 28 Falcon’s home 30 By itself 32 Raised prices 33 Relish tray item 34 Bygone 37 Still-life subjects 40 Mercury, but not Mars 42 Validating 45 Amaze 47 Cookie man 50 Shankar’s strings 54 Pass along 56 Judge’s prop 57 “Fernando” band 58 So-so grades 59 Bottom feeder 60 “Brava!” recipient 62 Jocular Jay 63 Pyramid builder 64 Shut with a bang 67 Obi-Wan