Today’s Crossword

ACROSS 1 — salts 6 Help a crook 10 Food additive 14 Kind of rocket 15 RPM dial 16 Smoke 17 Adjust the tires 18 Woodwind 19 Stretches the

truth 20 Lag behind 22 Egg dish 24 Yuletide 25 Gumshoes, often 26 Skin softeners 29 Cleaved 30 Sweeping stories 31 Actress —

Delaney 32 Nail the

quarterback 36 — be an honor 37 Astronomical

event 41 Stage signal 42 Offshore 44 Rand of fiction 45 Neat and smart 47 Mild expletive 49 Exploits 51 Strange truth 54 Large vases 55 Glossy paint 56 Sighed 60 Prima donna 61 Lamb’s pen

name 63 Eager and

willing 64 Pious ending 65 Colonial dance 66 Bilko’s name 67 Persist 68 Avec’s opposite 69 Faked out the

goalie DOWN 1 Hurlers’ stats 2 Fleece 3 Recipe direction 4 Kind of farm 5 Cobra eater 6 Coral reefs 7 Bunyan’s ox 8 Author Umberto — Math statements Influences Deceitful cunning Color of honey Sleeps Army off. Game piece Take a header Darth’s daughter Decides Lunar effect Family members 9 10 11 12 13 21 23 25 26 27 28 31 33 Plays a role 34 Appealing 35 Pocket janglers 38 Yule singers 39 Wildcat 40 Caught 43 Stubborn plus 46 Bleak and forbidding Summer drink Wall paintings Eur. country Piano part Feminine principle, to Jung Rhapsodizes Good, for Pedro Yarn measure Actress — Falco Did a salon job Grassland 48 49 50 51 52 53 56 57 58 59 62