TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Author’s need

5 Calf-length

9 Look at

13 Stadium noise

14 -- box

16 Give a wolfish look

17 James of jazz

18 Throws

19 Finish last

20 Treeless plain

22 Seize

24 Blisters

25 Nocturnal marsupial

26 Tubular pasta

28 Restaurant offerings

32 Naive one

35 Above, in verse

37 Fall upon

38 Pub order

39 Easy-tofind constellation

41 Insurance gp.

42 Somber

45 Tex. neighbor

46 Psychic’s intro (2 wds.)

47 Reeves of “Speed”

48 Lure

50 Leg bones

54 Colorful parrot

58 Did a second draft

60 Spatter

61 Mongolian desert

62 Turn loose (2 wds.)

64 Division word

65 “It weighs -- --!”

66 “-- vincit amor”

67 Bedspring

68 Hackman or Wilder

69 Holed, as a putt

70 Bone-dry

DOWN

1 Use a steam iron

2 Keno kin

3 Tom Mix movie

4 Swing for acrobats

5 Some rodents

6 NW state

7 ‘70s dance music

8 Jots 9 Tomes

10 Composer -- Stravinsky

11 Threat ender

12 Very little

15 Recipe amts.

21 Air-pump meas.

23 Antacid brand

25 Wharf

27 Elmer Fudd, e.g.

29 Long sighs

30 Cement component

31 Blackthorn

32 Lie by the pool

33 -- vera lotion

34 First name in horror

36 Narrow inlet

37 “Diana” singer

40 Poets’ eyes

43 What vines do

44 Naturalist John

-46 Slanted type

49 Scamp

51 Kind of knife

52 Things on a list

53 State Farm competitor

55 Open boat

56 Up and about

57 Complete

58 From memory

59 Poet’s black 60 Enjoy a hot tub

61 Joke 63 Tonic partner