DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1) Keg spigot

4) Window parts 9) Musical exercise

14) Valuable rock

15) Move very gradually 16) Huge ship

17) Major network

18) Crew member

19) Express audibly

20) Totally prepared

23) Crime committed with bad lighting?

24) Pizza fractions, often 28) Court figure, briefly 32) Honeybunch alternative

33) Parenthesis, essentially

36) Mixtures or medleys 38) Akin to

39) Apt end to a peaceful day

43) _-bodied

44) Ogre's lack

45) Medicos, briefly

46) One who has your home covered?

49) Device in the beauty salon

51) Section of a lyric poem 53) Cheese chunk 57) Treat for a babysitter 61) Set straight, as tires 64) Comparatively sicker 65) Kiwi's extinct relative 66) Like Swiss cheese

67) Like some sugar units 68) Pothook shape

69) Bit of severe weather 70) Some freshwater ducks

71) "Just as I predicted!"

DOWN

1) Island nation east of Fiji 2) Ann_, Mich.

3) River to the Rio Grande 4) City in Pennsylvania 5) Clothes presser 6) Bawdy

7) Lecherous gaze 8) Bender

9) Gunk

10) It's tough to fight, it's said

11) Picnic pest

12) Director Spike

13) Human thing to do, it's said

21) Cuban couple

22) Word with "first" or "band"

25) Attempted

26) Boy Scout, at times 27) Oozes

29) Certain Ivy Leaguer 30) Approaching, poetically

31) _ and aahed

33) Some culture mediums

34) Automaton

35) Amber, for one

3 7) Name on a billboard 40) Visibility helper

41)_ Lanka (Ceylon)

42) Shop VIPS

47) Item name derived from a person

48) P on a frat house

50) Gun, as an engine

52) Pronouncement

54) Some coins

55) Barnyard honker

56) Clear a blackboard 58) Down in the dumps 59) Isle of exile for Napoleon

60) Command to a dog 61) Sounds of understanding

62) Auction offering

63) U.N. workers protection gp.