DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

I) "Drinks_ the house!" 6) Sheik's bevy

11) Infomercials, e.g.

14) Corkwood

15) Make reparations

16) Ashes receptacle

17) 9-5, typically

19) Cloak-and-dagger org.

20) Birds that sound deserving

21) Best man, often

23) Made a basket

26) Winter mo.

27) Emerald Isle

28) Some email attachments

29) Little cupid

32) '80s prime-time alien 33) Telephone button

34) Occasion for a spirited conversation?

37) Exxon competitor

39) Taking a vacation day 41) Further shorten, as a piece of wood

42) Let out some air

44) Homophone of 16Across

46) Vein contents

4 7) Dusk, poetically 49) Whence to admire? 50) French clergyman 52) Gangster's pistol 53) Indentations, as in chins

55) Picnic take-alongs 57) One way to go to a party

58) Pigeon's sound

59) Enjoy a sabbatical 64) "Shame on you!" sound

65) Animation legend Tex

66) Hindu gentleman (Var.)

67) Some cross rds.

68) Potted plant's place 69) Make malicious remarks

down

I) Blood system, for short 2) The "so few" Churchill referred to

3) Keebler baker, in ads 4) Wickerwork twigs 5) Abalone product 6) Cries of triumph

7) "Z" preceder? 8) Carpenter's tool 9) Covers up

10) Southwestern butte 11) Uses Sotheby's

12) Less wet

13) Tom-tom neighbor 18) "This foolishness must_ once!"

22) Stiff hairs or bristles 23) "The final frontier" 24) 459, in old Rome

25) Not reported, as income

26) Surrender

30) Former Chinese chainnan

31) Relative of 20-Across 33) Seafood entree

35) Diamond size measure

36) Decorative jugs

38) "Case dismissed" punctuation mark

40) Fleeting obsession 43) Personalize, in a way 45) Prefix with "linear" that means

"straight"

48) Assigned work to 49) Crete's sea

50) S&L holdings

51) Shove up from below 54) Some yeanlings

56) And others, for short 57) Eye-opening problem?

60) Work bit