TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “— vincit amor” 6 Function properly

10 Intensity

14 Set a gemstone

15 Oil exporter

16 On strike

17 Let out, maybe

18 Wine and dine

19 Playful bites

20 Lull

22 Rows of bushes

24 Ice skater

Babilonia

25 Oater

backdrop

26 Feng —

29 Roulette color

31 Met celebs

36 Oasis abode

37 Watchdog’s

warning

38 Compliment

39 Referred to

41 Mystifying

42 Loses traction

43 This, to Caesar

44 Endure

45 Monopoly

buy

46 Algebra and

trig

47 Cousteau’s

islands

48 Listen carefully

50 List shortener

52 Turndown

55 Sewing machine

part

59 Fish for salads

60 Thick slice

62 Fine violin

63 Quite similar

64 Practically

forever

65 Bug off

66 Start all over

67 Trade

68 Nile city

DOWN 1

“Rubaiyat” author

2 Lawn pest

3 Pistachios

4 Incompetence

5 Posh lobbies

6 Any Mrs.

7 Pay dirt

8 Just as soon

9 Elbow opposites

10 Insult wittily

11 McClurg of sitcoms

12 Yodeler’s place

13 Orchestra leader — Baxter

21 Faint traces

23 Papa

25 Earth orbiter of

yore

26 Cache

27 Word of welcome

28 Not burning

30 Airport code for

O’Hare

32 Incriminates

33 Very important

34 Start the day

35 Factions

38 William Tell

40 Metropolis of

India

41 Camp bed 43 Possessed

46 Ripe and juicy

49 Soothes

51 Physicist

Nikola —

52 Ellington of jazz

53 City in

Oklahoma

54 Billionth, in

combos

55 Cook’s meas.

56 Sketch

57 Volcanic flow

58 Delightful place

59 Sailor

61 Literary

compilation