Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Cuts off 5 Member of a strict Jewish sect 10 Artistic Chinese dynasty 14 Ohio’s Great Lake 15 Justice Kagan 16 Egg-shaped 17 Ancient mariner’s fear 19 Flexible mineral sheet 20 Persuade with flattery 21 Fossil resins 23 “Beowulf,” poem-wise 24 Rubs the wrong way? 25 Chain reaction requirement 29 Stagecoach puller 30 Allied gp. since 1948 31 Dangerous snakes 35 Antipollution org. 36 Hit, as a fly 40 Alphabetically first of two Hawaiian maunas 41 Like some coll. courses 43 Gp. getting many returns in April 44 Regular’s bar order, with “the” 46 Nation that promotes its people’s economic and social prosperity 50 Malicious rumors 53 “Do __ others ... ” 54 Judge, e.g. 55 Like faces at a fireworks display 59 “Dream on!” 60 Meditation goal hinted at by this puzzle’s circles 62 Wander 63 Close-knit group 64 Fairway club 65 Didn’t dillydally 66 Act with excessive passion 67 The Big Apple, in addresses
DOWN
1 Make-do amount? 2 Two-tone cookie 3 Chanteuse Edith 4 Six-line stanzas 5 Brave 6 Llama relative 7 Ooze 8 Quaint stopover 9 Sortable information source 10 Kenya’s major port 11 Like Wrigley Field’s walls 12 Mother-of-pearl 13 Water or wine vessel 18 Catches sight of 22 Dash in a spice rack? 24 Amo, amas, __ 25 “Moonstruck” star 26 Weapon in Clue 27 Baghdad’s land 28 Gobs of 32 Arctic seabird 33 __ moss 34 Markdown event 37 Whole-grain food 38 Pound sounds 39 Quarrel 42 Towered over 45 Preserve using barrels, as wine 47 Bard’s “before” 48 Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Watcher” __ Giles 49 Main course 50 Burns a bit 51 Legendary fabulist 52 Easily deceived 55 “Go back” PC command 56 __ a one: none 57 Supply-anddemand subj. 58 Reject as false 61 “The Deer Hunter” war zone, for short