Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Spunky 8 Longest-serving Japanese prime minister 11 Ave. crossers 14 Steel foundry input 15 Traction-improving 17 “Try some!” 18 Lamaze class attendee 19 Expectant time 20 One of the family 22 About 24% of the U.S. Congress 23 Stations 26 Place for choppers 29 Not quite right 30 Oodles 31 Broadway song that begins, “The most beautiful sound I ever heard” 33 Brief encounter 34 Flag thrower 37 Co-tsar with Peter I 38 Saucepan cover 39 Missile Command game company 41 Place to stay 42 Newcastle Brown __ 43 Starts bubbling, maybe 44 Fleecy one 45 Loafs 47 Strong suit 48 Lost, as a big lead 49 Way back when 50 Rum drink 54 Competition that includes snowboarding 57 Pianist Rubinstein 58 California’s __ Gabriel Mountains 60 Egg cells 61 Like the most busy busybody 64 Mid-Michigan city 67 Uganda’s capital 68 Accessory for an Aquaman costume 69 Before, in poems 70 Coffee hour sight 71 “Sounds right to me”
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1 Positioned 2 Really want 3 New Year’s Day event in Pasadena 4 Tiny toiler 5 Name in eerie fiction 6 Proper to a fault 7 Himalayan legend 8 “Furthermore ... ” 9 Fluffy wrap 10 Finish impressively 11 Sportscast technique 12 River near Vatican City 13 Exhausted 16 “Hold it!” 21 Lamb Chop puppeteer 24 Short, in a way 25 It helps you go places 27 Gives the slip 28 Part of LAPD 31 Pedometer unit 32 Swear 33 Sport coat 34 Get support, in a way ... and what the puzzle circles do 35 Writer Gardner 36 Rock that, oddly, loses to paper 40 Puccini opera 46 Boxer Laila 49 Ventura County city 50 German word of gratitude 51 Wildly cheering 52 Knocker’s words 53 Zinger 55 Chris of “Captain America” 56 Handled 59 Wine made from Muscat grapes 62 Camera type, for short 63 You basked for it 65 USO show audience 66 Wyo. neighbor