TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sticky soil

5 Puff along

9 Pungent

14 Stoic founder

15 Roll call reply

16 Tenet

17 Mellowed

18 Basics

20 Oar pullers

22 Airline to

Osaka

23 Bird abode

24 Tolerates

26 Marie’s

companion

28 Untied

32 Wholly

absorbed

36 Thigh neighbor 37 Compliments

39 Fruity drink

40 Tavern brews

42 Gulf Coast city 44 Tien Shan range 45 Immunity shot

fluid

47 Comes close

49 Get one’s goat 50 Gets

accustomed

52 Board game with

tiles

54 “WNBA Tuesday”

airer

56 James — Jones 57 Not very close 60 Business VIP

62 Earns, as interest 66 1961 Elvis film ( 2

wds.)

69 “The Clan of the Cave Bear” author

70 Barely move

71 Comparative

word

72 Have an effect 73 Math proposition 74 Carried a tune 75 Went to court

DOWN

1 Industry magnate

2 Toy building block

3 Freshly

4 Alpine refrains 5 Horse color

6 Stag attendees 7 Bear, to Brutus 8 Actress — Davis 9 Fake it

10 Standards

11 Tail end

12 Not employed 13 Rx amount

19 Identify

21 Smell terrible 25 Four- door car 27 Ltd. cousin

28 Tibet’s capital 29 Helped the Tin

Man

30 “Tosca,” e. g.

31 Mosque toppers 33 Improvise

( hyph.)

34 Cultured gem 35 Tot’s vehicle

38 “The final

frontier”

41 Conscience

43 Decking out 46 Geographical

abbr.

48 Graceful wrap

51 Pet- adoption

org.

53 Meadow plaints 55 Frog relatives

57 “SOS” band

58 Constant

change

59 BMW rival

61 Maui neighbor 63 Hula feast

64 Hockey feint

65 Luge or sleigh

67 Do a sewing

chore

68 Actor — McKellen