TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Marching band instrument

5 Ore- smelting

waste

9 Foul- smelling

14 Ra’s symbol

15 Box for cash

16 “Time is money,”

e. g.

17 Indic language 18 Not for

19 “Lost in Yonkers”

playwright Neil 20 Walk like a bear 22 Power source

24 Gladiator’s

place

26 Earth ( pref.)

27 Trojan War hero 30 Bay of Biscay

resort

35 White as a sheet 36 Dump a lover

37 Area of London 38 Fem. saint

39 Held tenderly

42 Habit wearer

43 Pair of oxen

45 Rara —

46 Hazard a guess 48 Deep well

50 Dresses

51 Hosp. staffer

52 Harmful bacteria 54 Vague

discomfort

58 Begin anew

62 Improve upon 63 Projector part 65 Say decidedly 66 Public relations

concern

67 Detected

68 Auctioneer’s last

word

69 Introvert,

perhaps 70 As well as

71 Female wool producers

DOWN

1 Last bugle call

2 Western state

3 Bartok or Lugosi 4 Pep up

5 Not as crisp

6 Cool fabric

7 Mi. above sea level

8 Facile

9 More rapidly

10 Newsroom staffers 11 Gentle

12 Inventor —

Sikorsky

13 Contradict

21 Unbroken horse 23 Banded quartz 25 Tolerating

27 “— la vista!”

28 Organic

compound

29 Swindle

31 Misfortunes

32 Column type 33 Thud

34 Territories

36 Coffee, in slang 40 Monsoons 41 Quad quarters 44 Hodgepodge 47 Stamps

49 Web expert? 50 San Joaquin

Valley city

53 Osprey kin

54 Drop in the slot 55 Munitions

56 Thin

57 Famous lioness 59 Declare

solemnly

60 Mathematician

— Descartes

61 Half of seis

64 Moray