today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Nature’s bandage

5 Arizona tribe

9 Recital pieces

14 Earthen jar

15 What hulks pump

16 Loosen

17 Seal an envelope

18 Blue or harvest

19 Hardware item

20 Microscopic animal

22 Sidewinders

24 Willingly

26 Tractable

27 Thai neighbor

28 Help-wanted abbr.

29 Hitchcock’s title

32 Fictional governess (2 wds.)

37 Black-andwhite animal 39 “The Clan of the Cave Bear” author

40 Sponsorship

43 Tooth part

44 Twist violently

46 Precisely right (2 wds.)

48 In the doldrums

49 Face the target

52 Head warmer

53 Brando’s “— Zapata!”

54 Making snakelike noises

59 Alpine vocalists

63 More beloved

64 Organic acid

65 Leafy vegetable

67 “Tomb Raider” heroine

68 Nonadult

69 Draws on

70 Off-road vehicles 71 Pipe handles

72 Sphagnum moss

73 Heartfelt

DOWN

1 Kind of eclipse

2 Weather, in poems

3 Bauxite user

4 Made a cake

5 High range

6 Pizarro’s quest

7 Third-rate

8 Natural

9 Floor cleaner (2 wds.)

10 Male relative

11 To be, in Paris

12 Stadium level

13 Hems up

21 Ill temper

23 — kwon do

25 Nostalgic time 29 Cozy

30 Not being used 31 Absorbed

32 Shark flick

33 Psychics may see it

34 Have to have

35 Raised railways

36 Self-image

38 Spring mo.

41 Creep along

42 Least exuberant

45 Garment makers

47 Nave neighbor

50 “— had it!”

51 Hike the price (2 wds.)

53 Cobra toxin

55 Kind of buffet

56 In a snit

57 Daredevil’s attribute

58 Comprehend

59 Tasty tubers

60 Exclude

61 Enjoy a banquet

62 Snail mail enc.

66 Meadow