Today’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 — du jour 5 Big dipper 10 Null’s partner 14 Rani’s spouse 15 Hip bone 16 Staffer 17 A Karamazov 18 Tractor garages 19 Musical symbol 20 Salt-rimmed treat 22 Mudville slugger 23 NASA counterpart 24 Med. staffer 25 Polish 29 Sheet material 33 Queen of the Misty Isles 34 Ben Jonson works 36 Two semesters 37 Utmost degree 38 Came around 39 Hot spring 40 Mars, to Plato 42 Consumer gds. 43 Pumps or wedgies 45 Type of eel 47 Bell tower 49 New World assoc. 50 Each and every 51 Pop in 54 Indoor gardener’s tool (2 wds.) 60 Kind of tradition 61 Listened in 62 Nectar fruit 63 Fish habitat 64 Disturbing emotion 65 Alice’s chronicler 66 Geraint’s beloved 67 In need of organization 68 Bug repellent

DOWN

1 Straight-laced 2 Emerging magma 3 Cracked 4 Off on a — (digressing) 5 Many October folk 6 Jai — 7 Gossip, slangily 8 Moon goddess 9 Dash lengths 10 Opening 11 Fixes a squeak 12 — fixe 13 Stand up to 21 Great Wall locale 22 EMT training 24 — -majeste 25 Hackneyed 26 “Violet” lead-in 27 Fix, as a skirt 28 Oater salutation 29 Lap dogs, slangily 30 “Sour grapes” coiner 31 Boutonniere’s place 32 Remove chalk 35 Old PC acronym 38 Iowa college town 41 Went bad 43 Bear’s advice 44 Chopper’s destination 46 Inform on 48 Cheap and gaudy 51 Meadow rodent 52 OPEC member 53 H.H. Munro 54 It may be spliced 55 Teases 56 Vein contents 57 “Sommersby” star 58 Robust 59 Slow run 61 Omelet extra