TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 “Ugh!”

5 Plummeted

9 Best or Ferber

13 Soprano’s piece

14 Protective clothing

15 Anchor

16 Tool sets

17 Cuban dance

18 Mope

19 “The -- the limit!”

20 “-- day now”

21 Full of difficulties

23 Laird’s daughter

25 Movie set VIP

26 Alpine refrains

29 Melodious

33 Prospector’s find

34 Sauce with basil

37 Thick soup

38 Rugged

40 Smears

42 Griffin of game shows

43 Water lily

45 Bobby of Indy fame

47 Dessert

48 Tangled

50 Heart

52 BMW rival

53 Unadorned

54 Died down

57 Pine cousin

58 Yucky

62 Member of the Pueblo people

63 Papas or Dunne

65 Spanish painter

66 What is more

67 Makes a salary

68 Saddle part

69 Benefit

70 Gainsay

71 Ore-smelting waste

DOWN

1 Talks on and on

2 Kramer or Satie

3 Area of dense population

4 Big bother

5 Distances

6 Multitude

7 Head, slangily

8 Problematic

9 General store

10 Easy way out

11 Name of a thing

12 Overdone

14 Accumulated

22 Stringed instrument

24 Mont Blanc

25 Untidy people

26 Cries of dismay

27 Rigel’s constellation

28 Rivermouth formation

30 Crawled

31 Hawk’s lair

32 Pry bar

35 Kuwaiti’s neighbor

36 Large cask

39 Length of time

41 Locks up tight

44 Pivot

46 Bright color

49 Swirled around

51 Whinnies

53 Dingbat

54 Moby Dick pursuer

55 Machete’s cousin

56 Lhasa -

57 Ancient plant

59 Refreshing

60 Actress Sedgwick

61 Yin complement

64 “Norma --”