DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1) African ravine

5) Parts of an udder

10) DNA component?

14) Drilling org.

15) Problem for a grain farmer

16) Revered expert

17) Storybook beginning 18) In the past, to poets of the past

19) JFK predictions

20) Progressed by large increments

23) Colony soldier

24) African jaunt

25) Cover with strings

27) _ Island (Brooklyn neighborhood)

30) Cool shoe

33) Enjoy the limelight 36) Stretched tightly

38) Fabricate, as a signature

39) Reindeer's cousin

40) Start to get in shape 42) Large 3-Down dispenser

43) Dispatch boat

45) Bereft

46) Annoying buzzer 47) Gets thinner toward one end

49) Explosive stuff

5 l ) Sworn statements

53) Camera parts

57) Puzzle doer, right now 59) Last part of a horse race

62) Poker buy-in

64) "All sales are_"

65) The Sail (southern constellation)

66) Author's concern

67) Like peas in a pod

68) Dashing style

69) Fit sound to action

70) Changed, as wallpaper 71) Stone paving block

DOWN

1) Angora and merino 2) Sleep disorder

3) Kind of coffee, briefly 4) Swell treatment? 5) Attack

6) Word used in proofs 7) Avidly eager 8) Kingdom in the South Seas

9) Prepares, as tea

10) It comes before beauty, it's said

11) Vamoose 12) Bit of Kurdistan

13) Furniture collection? 21)Not to

22) NBA or NFL event

26) Yoko who married Lennon

28) English nobleman

29) Whitehorse is its capital

31) City on the Yamuna River

32) Donated, temporarily 33) Defeated

34) Thomas Edison

35) Abandon abruptly

37) Television's Spelling 40) Monetary value

41) Nameless

44) Octopus's home

46) Feels acute distress 48) Ram's-horn horn

50) Drop a routine fly ball 52) Expression of amusement

54) Ancient upright stone 55) Acclaim

56) Snooty contraction 57) Barks like a pup

58) The "O" in SRO

60) Author Bagnold

61) Who H.H. Munro is 63) List ending, often