TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Starting point 6 German physicist 9 Diagram 14 Slip past 15 Sheep sound 16 Foretell 17 Greedy 19 Sink unclogger 20 Cable channel 21 Top-notch 22 Eccentric 23 High notes 25 Shopper’s dread 26 Mountain range 29 Oxford or pump 31 Horror flick sound 32 Easy victims 36 Holiday quaffs 37 Brownish fruit 38 Divulge a secret 40 Outstanding 43 Melbourne mate 45 Intensity 46 Addison’s partner 47 Mop up 50 Mongol ruler

51 This too -- pass

52 Trig function 54 Winged mammal

57 Elf

58 Speak clearly 61 Queen of the Misty Isles 62 Perform in a theater 63 Peace and quiet

64 Bogs down 65 Ginnie -66 -- Davis of films

DOWN

1 Ernie’s Muppet friend 2 Actor Rickman

3 Bldg. manager

4 Eddie Cantor’s wife 5 Brief time 6 Flute cousins

7 Herr’s dwelling

8 Yacht basin sight

9 Golf course gofers

10 Erie neighbor

11 Banded quartz 12 Undersized pups

13 Priam’s kingdom 18 Girder (2 wds.) 23 Summit 24 Victorian, e.g.

25 Fortune 26 Common ID

27 Desktop symbol

28 As a result 29 Sales pitch 30 Witch, to Shakespeare 33 “Ghosts” playwright 34 Ultimatum word 35 Spinnaker or jib 37 Sunshine st.

39 Nectar gatherer 41 Flowering shrubs 42 Gentle bear 43 Gray-faced 44 Tony-winner -- Hagen 47 Spicy stew 48 More permissive 49 Ruling class 50 Rockne of Notre Dame 51 Meat in a can

52 Coal deposit 53 Ancient empire 54 Commanded 55 Pharaoh’s god

56 Prefix for “trillion” 59 Machine tooth

60 Rage