Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Spunky 8 Longest-serving Japanese prime minister
11 Ave. crossers 14 Steel foundry
input
15 Tractionimproving
17 “Try some!” 18 Lamaze class
attendee 19 Expectant time 20 One of the family 22 About 24% of the
U.S. Congress 23 Stations
26 Place for
choppers
29 Not quite right 30 Oodles 31 Broadway song that begins, “The most beautiful sound I ever heard”
33 Brief encounter 34 Flag thrower 37 Co-tsar with
Peter I 38 Saucepan cover 39 Missile Command
game company 41 Place to stay 42 Newcastle
Brown __ 43 Starts bubbling,
maybe
44 Fleecy one 45 Loafs
47 Strong suit 48 Lost, as a big
lead
49 Way back when 50 Rum drink 54 Competition that includes snowboarding 57 Pianist
Rubinstein 58 California’s __ Gabriel Mountains
60 Egg cells
61 Like the most
busy busybody 64 Mid-Michigan city 67 Uganda’s capital 68 Accessory for an Aquaman costume 69 Before, in poems 70 Coffee hour sight 71 “Sounds right to me”
DOWN
1 Positioned 2 Really want 3 New Year’s Day event in Pasadena
4 Tiny toiler 5 Name in eerie
fiction
6 Proper to a fault 7 Himalayan
legend 8 “Furthermore ... ” 9 Fluffy wrap 10 Finish
impressively 11 Sportscast
technique 12 River near
Vatican City 13 Exhausted 16 “Hold it!”
21 Lamb Chop
puppeteer 24 Short, in a way 25 It helps you go
places
27 Gives the slip 28 Part of LAPD 31 Pedometer unit 32 Swear
33 Sport coat 34 Get support, in a way ... and what the puzzle circles do
35 Writer Gardner 36 Rock that, oddly,
loses to paper 40 Puccini opera 46 Boxer Laila 49 Ventura County city 50 German word of
gratitude
51 Wildly cheering 52 Knocker’s words 53 Zinger
55 Chris of “Captain
America” 56 Handled
59 Wine made from
Muscat grapes 62 Camera type, for
short
63 You basked for it 65 USO show
audience 66 Wyo. neighbor