Today’s crossword

ACROSS

1 *Dough (and start

of a word ladder) 6 “__ it ain’t so!” 9 Pop’s bros 13 Insurance giant 14 Paul Bunyan tool 15 *Bit of luck 16 *Dismal 17 Itinerary word 18 Poetic feet

19 __ Lingus 20 Horse-and-buggy

sect

22 *Sheepish

remark? 23 Interoffice PC

connection 24 Carnival city 25 “You bet!” 27 “Seats all taken”

sign

28 Abbr. on a B-52 30 Not nice at all 32 Hillside home

asset

33 Author Wiesel 35 Blood work and

such

37 Apt description of the sequence suggested by the answers to starred clues? 40 Partygoer, say 43 Target’s target,

say

46 Some August

babies

47 Third of eight 50 Intertwine 52 Under the

weather

53 Also say

54 What a suspect tries to beat, with “the”

56 “That’s more than

I need to know” 57 *Made holy 59 Musical set in

Argentina 61 Family guy

62 “Me too!” 63 Bigwig 64 *Fabulous time 66 *Dispense with

modesty 67 Uncommon

sense

68 Justice

Sotomayor 69 A.D. part 70 Vote against 71 *Doomed, slangily (and end of the ladder)

DOWN

1 Ricky’s signature song on “I Love Lucy”

2 Word after news

or press 3 Everlasting 4 Santa __ winds 5 Senegal’s

capital

6 Rescuer

7 x or y, on graphs 8 “Sure, sure” 9 Eurasian border

river

10 Usually successful opponent 11 Musical set at the

Kit Kat Klub 12 Winter lifts 15 Tots’ spill

catchers 21 Karaoke singer’s

tool

26 Isle of

Napoleon’s exile 29 Piccolo relatives 31 Gastric woe 32 Cobra’s weapon 34 Long, long time 36 “Open __ 9 p.m.”:

store sign 38 Pigged out (on),

briefly

39 All square 40 Storied cave

opener 41 Exposes

42 Holy city

resident?

44 Nails the test 45 Absorption

process 48 Psychedelic 49 Fez or fedora 51 Suggest

53 Go __: fight 55 Brewery that co-distributes Not Your Father’s Root Beer

58 Just passable 60 Mastercard rival 65 WC