TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Smoothpated 5 Went very slowly 10 Actor — Baldwin 14 Tony’s cousin 15 Anxious to start 16 Waiter’s offering 17 Mix batter 18 Substantial 19 Roulette color 20 Disco flasher 22 Prepares to land 24 Vases with feet

26 66 and I-80 27 Function 30 Carved the turkey 34 NBA player 35 India neighbor 38 Huge 39 Imitate 40 Small coins 42 Clumsy boat 43 Rounds of applause 46 Spring month 48 Winged insect 49 Houston ball team 51 Orchestra members 53 Contented murmurs 55 Urges 56 Agendas 60 Chutney, e.g. 64 Grass 65 Danke, in Dijon 67 Ferber or Best 68 Kind of molding 69 Extremely 70 Bench sitters 71 Housefly, to humans 72 Wood finish 73 Tree fluids

DOWN

1 Cuts short 2 Help with a heist 3 Fish-story teller 4 Slow route 5 Glued tight 6 “Norma —” 7 Mild rejoinder 8 Sellers or O’Toole 9 Secret meetings 10 Memory gap 11 Uris of “Topaz” 12 Oklahoma town 13 Mongrels 21 Grain husks 23 Biology topic 25 Brown-tinted photo 27 Plains tribe 28 Daddies 29 Social gathering 31 Ill-tempered ones 32 Long-plumed bird 33 Fakes out, on the rink 36 Current meas. 37 Composer — Anderson 41 Omsk native 44 Old cop show 45 Fly upward 47 Solitary 50 Private eye 52 Small land masses 54 Make steel from iron 56 Fall softly 57 Come unglued 58 Feels obligated 59 Sp. miss 61 Cerebral achievement 62 Ginger cookie 63 Smokehouse products 66 Dernier —