Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Prefix with bar
4 Purple color named for a flower
9 Kind of minister or suspect
14 Habit wearer
15 “Mutiny on the Bounty” captain
16 “Star Wars” director George
17 Two-base hit: Abbr.
18 Cloak-anddagger spy
20 Heroic tale
22 Direction of the dawn
23 Easter egg coloring
24 Typically yellow tangy fruit
29 Quivery vocal effect
30 Spanish eight
34 Of an arterial trunk
38 Belle’s suitor
39 *Accessory metaphor for an accomplishment
44 Gas leak giveaway
45 “I’m clueless”
46 City near Tahoe
47 Whiner
52 Spaghetti-in-acan icon
57 Emails a dupe to
60 Goddess for whom a month is named
61 Theater segments
62 “I Can’t Help Myself” Motown group ... and what’s comprised by 18-, 24-,
39and 52-Across’ starting words?
67 Frito-__
68 Old toga wearer 69 Frighten
70 Start for fab or fix 71 Pinocchio’s
problem
72 Roll of the dice
73 “__ the DJ, I’m the Rapper”: 1988 album
DOWN
1 Behind on bills
2 Not up to snuff
3 Browsing the Web, say
4 Scale units: Abbr.
5 Land in la mer
6 DMV certificate
7 Go along (with)
8 Tightfisted
9 Table setting item
10 Snug bug’s place?
11 Covered, as a cake
12 Numerous
13 Punta del __, Uruguay
19 Recipe abbr.
21 Cell pic taker
25 Ark builder
26 Crazy as __
27 X-rated stuff
28 Lynda Bird’s married name
31 Average grade
32 Actor Holbrook
33 Not in the office
35 You, in French
36 With unnamed partners, in bus. names
37 Suspicious (of)
39 Neither’s partner
40 Wordsworth’s “__ to Duty”
41 Trucker’s unit
42 Gator kin
43 “Don’t __ word!”: “Shh!”
48 “I’m freezing!”
49 Brewer Coors
50 Sign warning word about a watchdog
51 “Absolutely!”
53 Chinese ethnic group
54 Water, in Cannes
55 At the head of the line
56 Cookie baker’s lot
57 Bottom-corner PC key
58 Bok __: Chinese cabbage
59 18-wheeler
63 One cheering for the team
64 Sculler’s prop
65 Whiz
66 Stitch together