TOday’S CrOSSWOrd

aCrOSS

1 Salon offering

5 Hero’s journey

10 Centrally located

14 Chocolate cookie

15 Reporting to

16 Fill the hull

17 Bradley or Sharif

18 Theater part

19 Square footage

20 Empathy

22 Melodious

24 Fashion accessory

25 Latin I verb

26 Bureaus

30 Padlock partners

35 Poet’s contraction

36 Touch lightly

37 Head dog

38 Least busy

41 Broad-minded

43 Quilt filler

44 Wrestler’s coup

45 Quiet — — mouse

46 Herd member

47 Double-crossed

50 Galley slaves’ need

53 Cheerful color

54 On the loose

(2 wds.)

58 Persistent problem

62 Stern opposite

63 Pungent

65 Grandeur

66 Barn neighbor

67 Sheer fabric

68 Color

69 Silica mineral 70 Wound down 71 Potato jacket

dOWN

1 Low-quality

2 Columnist — Bombeck

3 Gather in crops

4 Changes (into)

5 Chamber music ensembles

6 Ounce or inch

7 MS. fixers

8 Exchanges for money

9 Poker pair

10 Jai —

11 Antony or Chagall

12 Project starter

13 Agreement

21 W. Hemisphere

alliance

23 Fix up

25 Mind-reader’s

letters

26 Prescribed amounts

27 Kindled anew

28 Form a gully

29 Scoundrel

31 Pub order

32 Waterfall effect

33 Stage

34 Place for croutons

39 Very little

40 Bad move

41 Kind of detector

42 Trespassed

44 TV network 48 Avg. size

49 Copes with change

51 Yucca kin

52 Spy mission

54 Lhasa — 55 Take a header

56 “Damn Yankees”

vamp

57 MP prey

58 Liver secretion 59 Make reservations

60 Former science

magazine

61 Doing business

64 Disposed of