Today’s Crossword

ACROSS

1 NaCl

5 Object

10 Gulp down 14 Butter substitute 15 Upper-crust 16 Nathan the patriot 17 Father of Cain 18 Laird’s wear 19 Ocean bird 20 Package

22 Movies 24 Compilation 25 Marsh bird 26 Strength

29 Had a question 33 Not strict 34 Fair-hiring letters 35 Soupy

36 TV serial part 39 Notwithstanding 41 Egypt’s Anwar — 42 Superman foe

— Luthor

43 Served the meal 44 Dozed off 45 Quicker

48 Squints at

51 Take to the slopes 52 Grassland 55 Renter

59 Dublin’s land 60 Elf’s kin

63 Mr. Stravinsky 64 Makes a hole

in one

65 Egret cousin 66 Prefix for “trillion” 67 Bench or hassock 68 Bird’s melody 69 Red-waxed cheese

DOWN

1 Kind of opera 2 Tynan portrayer 3 Bard’s tragic king 4 Alley habitue 5 Exited a 747 6 House addition 7 Hamm of soccer 8 Port near

Carthage

9 Hired a

decorator 10 Encourages

(2 wds.) 11 Damage 12 Radius’s

companion 13 The Bee — 21 Hydrocarbon

suffix

23 Gets closer 25 Colo. neighbor 26 Of the Vatican 27 Water or rust 28 So-so grade 30 Cutting

instrument 31 Calculator key 32 Tinted

33 Word of

comparison 37 Most sentimental 38 River mammal 39 Van — Waals

force

40 Having life

42 UPS units

46 Be very frugal 47 Limited

49 Octopus leg count 50 Subscribe again 52 Tender pods 53 Sake grain

54 Zone

56 Mellowed, as

whiskey

57 Ibsen heroine 58 Monorail 61 Mineral deposit 62 Stooge with

bangs