Today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 Flavorless 5 Eyeliner 9 Diminishes 13 Too smooth 14 Large lots 16 District 17 Overconfident 18 Lacquer ingredient 19 Chime 20 Funny 22 Future bride 24 Rocker — John

26 Mao — -tung 27 Reeves of “The Matrix” 30 Hot number (2 wds.) 35 Far East 37 Go, team! 38 Quaker pronoun 39 Fortify 40 Eyelet 43 Stock ending 44 Onion relative 46 Caught ya! 47 Buffalo skaters 49 Ells 52 Beauty’s swain 53 He pounds a beat 54 Move crabwise 56 Most submissive 60 Put up 64 Lhasa — 65 Get the lead out? 67 Port near Kilauea

68 In — (as found) 69 IOUs 70 Guitarist Clapton 71 “Beat it, cat!” 72 Iceberg sites 73 Play a kids’ game

DOWN

1 Variety of pear

2 VIP transport 3 An astringent 4 School subject 5 Jeweler’s measure 6 Wild feline 7 Paycheck abbr. 8 “Saga of the Greenlanders” hero 9 Advance money 10 — -a-brac 11 Part of N.B. 12 Philosopher 15 Tells the teacher 21 Held on tight 23 Blond shade 25 1066 conquerors 27 Tailless marsupial 28 Went wrong

29 Did target practice 31 Rear-end 32 Scarlett of Tara 33 Centering points 34 Visitor 36 Gadded about 41 Taunting cry 42 Kind of tennis 45 Evict (2 wds.) 48 Gray-barked trees 50 Finger’s opposite 51 Brief snooze 55 Formal, maybe 56 Huge crowd 57 Spectacular 58 Spanish pronoun 59 Three, to Juan 61 Retread 62 Ducommun or Wiesel 63 Wharf 66 Homer Simpson’s dad