Today’s Crossword

ACROSS 1 Barber’s

implement 6 Gardener, often 10 Planets, to poets 14 Desensitize 15 Soften 16 Game with mallets 17 Heaped 18 Young lady of Sp. 19 Black, to Donne 20 Half-frozen 22 Bolting down 24 NATO turf 26 Maroon 27 Abandon 31 Soyuz destination 32 Work by Homer 33 Praise for a diva 36 Lib. section 39 Slaps the cuffs on 40 Ms. Witherspoon 41 Duck or hue 42 Suppositions 43 Friars’ rooms 44 Overly trusting 45 Sheep 46 Adjusted the

wheels 48 Outback cuties 51 To date 52 Safe to drink 54 Pin-up girl Betty — 59 Nile wader 60 Pinocchio, e.g. 62 Do the trick 63 Shampoo additive 64 Pound or Cornell 65 Works the soil 66 Arena cheerers 67 Hockey feint 68 Title role for

Madonna DOWN 1 Jags 2 Dye-yielding plant 3 Language with

clicks 4 Miners’ quests 5 Carrot-top 6 “— So Shy” 7 Dinghy’s need 8 — Park, Colo. 9 Not inert, in the

lab 10 Verdi oeuvres 11 Common nester 12 Fair-haired boy 13 Birdcall 21 Hearty laugh 23 Bear in the sky 25 Rise up 27 Foreign film ender 28 Norse king 29 Curved bones 30 Stockholm carrier 34 Kin, for short 35 Metallurgy test 36 Bridle part 37 Icicle site 38 Left in a hurry 40 Forwarded on 41 License plate 43 Baby elephant 44 Fertilizer chemical 45 Jacks up 47 Limb 48 “In Xanadu did —

Khan ...” 49 The Dog Star

follows him 50 Grab 52 “La Vie en Rose”

chanteuse 53 Brunette 55 Tel — 56 South Seas

paradise 57 Cheerful tone 58 Movie lioness 61 Charlotte of

“Bananas”