TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Swabs

5 Valise

9 Dove’s shelter

13 High-tech memo

15 Time period

16 On a rampage

17 Criticize

18 Gamblers’ mecca

19 Solar plexus

20 “Aye, aye” follower

21 Tender cutlets

23 Cheated a bit

25 Trapper’s commodity

26 Aromatic resin

27 Game fish

30 Motor lodge

31 Pen name

32 Skulked about

36 Highway cruiser

37 Tooth cleaner

39 Cousteau’s middle name

41 Solidify

43 Sonnets

44 Vex

45 Cowboy topper

47 Mutate

50 Green Hornet’s aide

51 Fly a plane

52 Trading center

53 Make a wager

56 One-liners

57 “Cool!”

59 Delight

61 Garfield’s canine pal

62 Soft drink buy

63 “Divine Comedy” poet

64 Firms up

65 Hearty laughs

66 Line of stitches

DOWN

1 Army chow

2 Old Dodge model

3 Au -(nanny)

4 Just a taste

5 Dance wildly

6 Projection room unit

7 Scottish for John

8 Desecrates

9 Funny people

10 Psi follower

11 Aleut carving

12 Got by

14 Embankments

22 A Miss America host

24 Bone below the elbow

25 Unadorned

26 Receptacles

27 Used to be

28 Knighted Guinness

29 VIP transport

32 Costa del

-33 Temple city of Japan

34 Nights, in classifieds

35 Car salesman’s deal

37 Ardor

38 Water ski locale

40 Nine-digit ID

42 Thin gold layer

43 Stroked

45 Winter sports gear

46 Driveway topper

47 Sidestep

48 Sentry’s watch

49 Camel halts

51 Openmouthed

52 False face

53 Pain in the neck

54 Sundance Kid’s wife

55 Crawl with

58 Paris thirstquencher

60 -- Vegas