TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Eat soup impolitely

6 Lectern

10 Concept

14 Vietnam’s capital

15 Pencil point

16 Paper quantity

17 Start the day

18 Patron saint of Paris

20 Nixon’s nemesis

22 Colorado tree

23 Stage prompt

24 Weathervane dir.

25 Insolent

29 Needs to be paid (2

wds.)

34 Functions

35 Hindu teachers

36 “This — — test”

37 Comic-strip dog

38 Where Lhasa is

39 Sixty minutes

40 Society column

word

41 Takes the plunge

42 Citation

43 Assembled formally

45 Innocently

46 Ghost — — chance

47 Driving hazard

48 Video companion

51 Making a bow

57 Method

59 Shack

60 Trim

61 Barely open

62 Address the crowd

63 Hauled into court 64 Double agent 65 Uptight

DOWN

1 Bandleader Artie —

2 Zhivago’s beloved

3 Military group

4 Mounted

5 Makes holes in

6 Pond scum

7 Assemble

8 Harmful thing

9 Tribute in verse

10 Purple flowers

11 Intense

12 Overhang

13 Word of assent

19 Nosegay holders

21 Thug’s piece

24 Soot

25 Wild horse

26 Cowboy show

27 Sci-fi thriller

28 Mark of Zorro

29 Raised to the third power

30 Raw metals

31 Vacuum tube

32 Normal

33 Before due

35 Become a donor

38 Singer — Turner

39 — Majesty

41 “Moll Flanders” author

42 Suspect’s photo (2 wds.)

44 Expressed 45 Greenhouse purchase

47 Jacques, in song

48 Imitates

49 Karachi language 50 Old ruler of Venice

51 King’s crazed canine

52 Eurasian mountains 53 Distant past

54 Tsar name

55 After-tax amounts

56 Delight

58 Grand Coulee