TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Loan abbr.

4 Long stories

9 Audit aces

13 Spike or Ang

14 Fishing net

15 Intone

16 Python or wrap

17 Griffith or Zola

18 Redhead’s dye

19 Less than

21 Sliver

23 Enigma

26 Singer — Braxton

27 Murmured softly

29 Uniform wearers

33 Basinger or Novak

36 Goes sky-high

38 America’s Cup

entrant

39 Horse, perhaps

41 Released

43 To be, to Henri

44 Bushed

46 Designated

48 Summer drink

49 Coveted awards

51 Skimpy skirts

53 DEA operative

55 Doctor’s concern

59 Marshmallow

toaster

63 Abdul or Prentiss

64 Parcel out

65 Excedrin rival

68 Flour holder

69 Venture forth

70 Kitchen strainer

71 Morn’s counterpart

72 Leg joint

73 Put a spell on

74 Thing, in law

DOWN

1 Stamp holder

2 Many petaled blossom

3 Utilizes the library

4 Record players

5 Sofa end

6 Moo goo — pan

7 Leather punches

8 Got some shuteye

9 Fuzzy fabric

10 Gasp

11 Ms. Bancroft of films

12 Milky Way part

15 Leisure wear

20 And so on

22 Take a bough

24 Building part

25 Long for

28 Stargaze

30 Minute amount

31 Twine

32 Fencer’s weapon

33 Green Hornet’s aide

34 Late spring flower

35 Mr. Chagall

37 Tractor-trailers

40 Lanky one

42 Gainsay 45 Cold, as an old house 47 Smiled prettily 50 Delhi address 52 Health resort 54 Collision

56 Potato

57 Dull green

58 Horses have them

59 Hogshead 60 Novelist — Paton

61 Mme.’s daughter

62 Mcclurg or Brickell

66 Badger

67 “— got it!”