TODaY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Rookie reporter

4 Abird

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