TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Greenhouse purchase

4 Latin dance

9 Grooms poodles 14 Thurman of

“Gattaca”

15 Recurrently

16 Asian capital

17 Ridiculed

19 Leading man 20 Bundle of grain 21 Verne’s skipper 23 Codgers’ queries 24 From Asia

27 Lustrous fabric 29 Crowd in

31 Spotted horses 34 Squeakers

37 Pencil end

39 “Alfie” star

40 Fragrance

41 Gulf nation

43 Verb preceder 44 Thinks ahead 46 Markdown

47 Part of MIT

48 Finest quality 50 Play a guitar

52 Perfect

54 Musical

compositions 58 Scribble down 60 Lunchtime

62 Stone pillar

63 Skip a syllable 65 Victor 68 Knock for a loop 69 Romance, on the Seine

70 Navajo handiwork 71 Imagine

72 Sandbags, maybe 73 Juice-based drink

DOWN

1 Nurse’s concern

2 Plains tribe

3 Makes docile

4 Subcontractor

5 Enigmatic sighting 6 Geog. feature

7 “I’ve — had!”

8 Inca territory

9 In an uproar

10 Shellac resin

11 Aim

12 Bear of little brain 13 Knights of the realm 18 Like damask

22 Glove compartment item

25 Optimistic

26 Short letters

28 Like a rock

30 Wild cats

32 Burden

33 Dispatched

34 Utility closet items 35 Doing plenty of nothing

36 Alliance

38 Encircling strips

42 Ruler before Galba 45 Landscape

49 “— Te Ching” 51 Wavering

53 Not an express 55 Land, to Caesar