Today’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 Where elephants

are

5 Mr. Eban 9 No-seats sign 12 Lean against 13 Jumbo

15 Beg pardon! 16 Study hard 17 Scratchy

18 Old Norse poem 19 Tahini base 21 Scorn

23 Tints

25 Flower

26 Top seed’s reward 29 Goddess of victory 31 Small domestic

fowl

35 Really impress 36 True inner self 38 It may be good or

bad

39 Skippers’ OKs 41 Water birds 43 Cougar’s home 44 Standards

46 Catty

48 Co.

49 Fall upon

51 Foggy

52 Also

53 Dress fastener 55 Playwright

— Coward 57 Superior (hyph.) 61 Close

65 Hideous monster 66 Small farm 68 Bartok or Lugosi 69 Put on board 70 Phone answerer’s

greeting

71 Poet’s black

72 Like a desert 73 Zest for life

74 Be without

DOWN

1 Skips past

commercials 2 “Peter and the

Wolf” duck

3 Mine and thine 4 Place

5 Consenting 6 Publicity info 7 Modem-speed unit 8 Fury

9 Feng —

10 Nevada town 11 Augury

14 Vibrate

15 Ammo dump 20 Feathered talker 22 Ms. Dinesen 24 Starry vistas 26 Safari leader 27 Simple toys

(hyph.)

28 Pitchers 30 Correct 32 Genetic factor 33 Organic acid 34 A Polo

37 From Bangkok 40 Broke to bits 42 Oilers’ city 45 Trig function 47 Fencer’s blade 50 Pine cousin 54 Thick liquid 56 Price tag 57 Conduct a

meeting 58 Russian epic

hero 59 Squirrel color 60 Survey 62 McEntire of

country 63 Alliance

64 Tug sharply 67 Gulf st.