TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Sonic bounce

5 Groom excessively

10 Fish habitat

14 Jungle warning

15 Far from indifferent

16 Novelist Jean

-17 “Puppy Love” singer

18 Snapshot

19 Low card

20 Hen’s lack

22 Old play, restaged

24 Peel of “The Avengers”

27 Ricky Ricardo

28 Extend a run (2 wds.)

32 Shatter

35 Neighbor of Mex.

36 No-fat Jack

38 Muzzle

40 Parade feature

42 Deep breaths

44 Japanese wrestling

45 Trapshooting

47 Ghostlike

49 Male offspring

50 Savory jelly

52 Remote

54 Heavy metal

56 Lasted well

57 Road machines

60 Ambassador

64 Senior member of a group

65 Wets thoroughly

68 Showroom model

69 Murray or Rice

70 Blacksmith’s need

71 Composer -- Satie

72 Docs prescribe them

73 Very grassy

74 Type of palm tree

DOWN

1 QED part

2 Volcano shape

3 Cod kin

4 Mounted the soapbox

5 Vim and vigor

6 Bleachers cry

7 Russian epic hero

8 Gave out sparingly

9 Establishes as fact

10 Riga natives

11 Certain something

12 Hull part

13 England’s Isle of

-21 MD employers

23 Beliefs

25 Best players

26 Eagle’s nest

28 Centers

29 Major Japanese port

30 Country roads

31 Fits of anger

33 The “March King”

34 Jokes

37 Dice roll

39 Obie relative

41 Gets off a 787

43 Farm building

46 Made a knot

48 Patrick’s domain

51 Calpurnia’s husband

53 Watched over

55 Monotonous sound

57 Trait determinant

58 Pretoria’s currency unit

59 Rescue

61 Flo’s coworker

62 Jump over

63 Coupling device

64 Barrier

66 Youngster

67 Stallone nickname