TODAY’S CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pulls

5 Physicist Nikola —

10 “— — hungry I

could ...”

14 Singles

15 Bucket of song

16 Nun’s room

17 Trying

19 Hoople expletive

20 Windows

predecessor

21 Type of poem

22 Item to dunk (2

wds.)

24 Elmer Fudd, e.g.

25 Parisian street

26 Autumn chore

29 Terse saying

33 Brain waves

34 Songbird

35 Dow uptick

37 Spring training

loc.

38 Leather strip

39 Fodder

40 Turner of “Private

Dancer”

42 Sunset colors

43 — de menthe

45 Trailways or Greyhound (2 wds.)

47 Desperado

48 Scot’s cap

49 Nonverbal OKs

50 Noblemen

53 Gorilla or chimp

54 Onassis

nickname

57 Name in blue

jeans

58 Oval

61 Clump of dirt

62 Spaghetti

drainer

63 Number of

Muses

64 Great dog?

65 Was a scout

66 Tacks on

DOWN

1 Warty critter

2 Till

3 Figures out

4 Weathervane dir.

5 King of the hill (2 wds.)

6 Consumed

7 Compete in a slalom

8 Advanced, as cash

9 Ticking off

10 Broken-off glacier

11 Huge, in combos

12 Ore-smelting waste 13 Dilapidated

18 Planets’ companions

23 Dog days mo.

24 Tijuana aunt

26 Fissure

27 Bob Hope specialty (2 wds.)

28 Reeves of “Speed”

29 Crumble away

30 Stationery buys

31 Sighed with delight

32 Dolphins’ city

34 As soon as

36 Moscow turndown

38 Toned quality 41 In the saddle

43 Student at

Annapolis

44 Hosp. personnel

46 Southeast Asian

47 Moved jauntily

49 Easily duped

50 Bartok or Lugosi

51 Bard’s river

52 Slight error

54 Battery

chemical

55 Pretoria coin

56 Monsieur’s

islands

57 Arith. term

59 Luau welcome

60 — — pinch