TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Punches

5 Faded

9 Russian range

13 Dragon puppet

15 Car import

16 Quasimodo’s

creator

17 — — costs

18 Box tops

19 “— my word!”

20 Peer

22 Stick together

24 Caesar’s seven

25 Yes, to Pierre

26 Listener’s need

27 Lucky charm

31 Follows

33 Gone up

34 Turnpike oases

(2 wds.)

38 Thought

39 Big rigs

40 — vera lotion

41 Small landing fields 43 Ice pellets

44 Makes dilute

45 Parcels out

46 Brief engagement 49 Pacino and Hirt

50 Spring training loc.,

perhaps

51 Large lizard

53 Most clever

58 A Baldwin

59 Whistle time

61 Provide capital 62 Proboscis

63 Mideast native

64 Verne forte (hyph.) 65 Chuck

66 Sleeve fillers

67 Fervor

DOWN

1 — Blondell of films 2 Low voice

3 Spill the beans

4 Window base

5 Ocean, in Mongolian 6 Harm irretrievably

7 Say further

8 Doggie treats

9 “Forget it!” (hyph.) 10 Delhi coin

11 Old Greek marketplace

12 Aloof one

14 Late-news hour

21 Engineering sch.

23 Van Gogh’s medium 25 Refuge

27 Libretto feature

28 Skirt length

29 Internet fan

30 Smallest amount 31 Works part-time

32 Delay on purpose 34 Bridle parts

35 Diet spread

36 Rhyme maker

37 Treats fractures

39 Ceylon nowadays (2 wds.) 42 Larger — life 43 Candidate

lists

45 Chatty alien 46 Jumbo