DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1) _ sapiens

5) Applaud

9) Asparagus unit

14) Homecoming guest, briefly

15) Make over

16) Prefix for "sonic" or "violet"

17) Part of a Monopoly set 18) Bun warmer

19) Maple bar or apple fritter

20) President who was the son of a president

23) Break bread

24) Ages and ages

25) What a pilot might announce, briefly

28) Classroom assistant 31) Rub the wrong way

36) Drop, to an editor

38) Congers

40) Police car's alarm

41) President on the $1,000 bill

44) Like a vampire's face, stereotypically

45) Sky box?

46) Dietary, in ads

47) Supplies with better weapons

49) Dress in India 51) Affirmative action?

52) When dark comes o'er the land

54) Museum exhibit

56) President associated with peanuts

65) Dickens' Heep

66) Eight, on a sundial

67) Jason's mythical ship 68) Chop finely

69) Occasional needle point?

70) Barristers' accoutrements

71) Walkways

72) Dispatch, as a dragon 73) Misplace

DOWN

1) Muslim pilgrimage 2) Varied assortment 3) Scads

4) Signs of things to come 5) Raker of chips

6) Jeans name

7) Yemeni port 8) Explorer_ de Leon 9) Ethiopian's neighbor 10) Fail to tread lightly

11) Volcano in Sicily

12) Calla lily family

13) Things to exterminate, to many

21) Sine_ non 22) Hither companion

25) Painter Degas

26) Far from long-winded 27) Hello or goodbye

29) Dealer's handful

30) Clothing designer Perry

32) Place for dead presidents?

33) Coach

34) Slow, musically

35) Broke off

37) "Be it_ so humble ... "39) Words before "date" or "trap"

42) Entangles, as in a net 43) Truthfulness

48) Observe

50) Nest egg feature

53) Church parts

55) It's a drag in fishing circles

56) Checkers maneuver 57) Opera highlight

58) After-dinner confection

59) A head

60) 100 dinars

61) "Mona_"

62) Small band

63) Baker's dozen?

64) Gift on "The Bachelor"