Today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Have occasion for 5 Pet plea 9 Bacharach and Reynolds 14 — — proud of you!

15 GI supply 16 Mall for Plato 17 Take the bait 18 Large computers 20 Cheese dish 22 Optician’s wares 23 Dash off 24 Throw in 25 John — Astor 29 Cult 31 Movie pooch 35 Paradise 37 Romantic outing 39 Before, in combos 40 Bewails 42 Beef or lamb (2 wds.) 44 Horror-film street 45 Radar screen 47 One of the B vitamins 48 Survey chart 50 Bird of Egypt 52 Physicist Nikola — 53 Low-fat meat 55 Zenith 57 Tradition 60 Stayed in hiding (2 wds.) 64 Pads and covers a sofa 66 Sappho’s verse 68 Tied 69 Bank no. 70 Rural storehouse 71 Uneasy 72 AAA suggestions 73 Convince

DOWN

1 Pen part 2 Mideast title 3 Is, in Madrid 4 Go-getter 5 Ballroom number 6 Computer notes 7 Skipped 8 Came in first 9 Unveiled 10 Kampala’s country 11 Gypsy gents 12 Oak or maple 13 Get smart with 19 Squash 21 Waning 25 Plantation drink 26 To any degree (2 wds.) 27 List separator 28 Unseal, to a poet 30 Auto 32 Glasses, slangily 33 Shadow 34 State Farm competitor 36 Posh lobbies 38 Blue-penciled 41 Bro or sis 43 — West (life vest) 46 Patois 49 Wyoming range 51 Rare 54 Stale

56 Fine sprays 57 Where Havana is 58 Well-briefed (2 wds.) 59 Closed tightly 61 Insurance claim

62 Fat cat’s friend 63 Rural necessity 65 Mammoth entrapper 67 Note before la