TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rookie reporter

4 A bird

9 Sized up

14 Wheel buy (2 wds.)

15 Castle or Dunne

16 Sharp, as hearing

17 Coffee maker

18 Prudential

competitor

19 Frat letter

20 Crude shed (hyph.)

22 Piano performance

24 Mombasa’s land

25 Come to a boil

27 Shut with a bang

28 Quagmire

29 Move up

33 Before birth

36 Umpire’s yell

37 Stringed instrument

40 Instinct

42 Jackie’s tycoon

43 Light yellow

47 Family man

49 Computer-chip

maker

50 Eager

54 Balls of yarn

56 Small amount

57 Parvenu

60 Rehearsal (2 wds.)

61 Narrow down

62 Suffuse

65 PC key

66 Morning sounder

67 Habitat

68 Square-dance partner

69 Redhead’s dye

70 Put cargo on board

71 Before, in verse

DOWN

1 Makes waterproof

2 Wind off a spool

3 Monkey lure

4 Cowpoke’s rope

5 Hydrox rival

6 Wager

7 Place to sleep

8 Least distant

9 Hidden snag

10 More sore

11 Bird feeder treat

12 Wonder Woman’s friend

13 Contract

21 Dryad

23 Grain alcohol

25 — Juan

26 Geologic time period

28 Jollier

30 Debtor’s note

31 Big —, California

32 When Paris sizzles

34 Horizontally ribbed fabric

35 Sixth notes

37 Use a ray gun

38 401(k) cousin

39 Pointer

41 Misty-eyed

44 Monogram part

45 Map abbr. 46 Lawyer’s thing

48 Toward the rudder

51 Parking place

52 Microscope lens

53 Lamblike 55 It may be good or bad

56 Brought to bay

57 Idaho neighbor

58 Grow ashen

59 Full extent 60 Sharp dresser 63 Wall Street deg. 64 Build, slangily