today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Flapjack franchise 5 Cruise vessel 9 Hard to find 13 Egyptian Nobelist 15 Polynesian image 16 Elevator guy 17 Deli crepes 18 Blissful spot 19 Room under a roof 20 Born as 21 Unwanted guest 23 Saffron dish 25 Your Majesty 26 Muss up 27 Tall cactus 30 Have a cough 31 Grads 32 Imagination (2 wds.) 37 Irene of “Fame” 38 Full-grown 40 Think ahead 41 — down (went to work) 43 Spooky 44 Draw a bead on 45 Goes over again 47 Molecule cores 50 Exiled Roman poet 51 Morose 52 Parting words 53 LP successors 56 Novelist — Ferber 57 Zone

59 — cotta 61 Culture dish goo 62 Mallard cousin 63 Dark ale 64 Oater backdrop 65 Large deer 66 Pinnacle

DOWN

1 Library ID 2 Comet — -Bopp 3 Fat cat’s victim 4 Stovetop item 5 Boom box sound 6 Cover up 7 Much-liked prez 8 Locate 9 Thespians’ quests 10 Ring-shaped island 11 Cartridge holder

12 Is, in Avila 14 Shinbones 22 Hockey great 24 “— Lang Syne” 25 Wild shrub 26 Plane part 27 Flour holder 28 Astronaut — Shepard 29 Meditation guide 32 Beauty pack 33 Zoom 34 Charles Lamb 35 Length measure 36 Terminates 38 Ruin a friendship 39 It means “half” 42 Green vegetable 43 Watch sites 45 Palace dwellers 46 Festive night 47 Push gently 48 Humerus neighbors 49 Peller of “Where’s the beef?” 51 Bed of coal 52 Large nose 53 Gator kin 54 Oil barrel 55 Cloy 58 Family mem. 60 Airport info