TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Enthusiasm, plus

5 Torah reciter

10 Search for

14 Linchpin locale

15 Pungent vegetable

16 Winning serves

17 Dennis, to Mr. Wilson

18 Period of time

19 Cuff

20 Loch Ness site

22 Rite sites

24 Years on end

25 Orchestra member

26 Lone Star nine

29 See firsthand

33 Wrench

34 Work for a magazine

36 Windy and cold

37 Break in

38 Eggy desserts

39 Pub order

40 Choler

41 Gill alternative

42 Adhesive

44 Tummy soother

47 Quietest

48 Source of misery

49 Compilation

50 Egging on

53 Vampire novelist (2 wds.)

58 Strict

59 Achilles’ story

61 Cabinet part

62 Ess molding

63 River or mountain deity

64 Collar or jacket

65 Chops down

66 Mural undercoat

67 See each other

DOWN

1 Uses a ray gun

2 Suit, for short

3 Part of aka

4 Alphabet units

5 Games spectators

6 Soon 7 Quandary

8 Plant sci.

9 Settles

10 Speed up

11 NCAA Bruins

12 In the vicinity

13 Recipe amts.

21 Plunder

23 A great many

25 Not paid

26 Posh hotel lobbies

27 Avowed

28 Nepal neighbor

30 Clear

31 Epsom -

32 Saccharine

34 Slip past

35 Rather of news

38 Hurling

42 Corn bread

43 Granted

45 Puts up with

46 Knows how

47 Crow’snest cry (2 wds.)

50 “Yikes!” (hyph.)

51 Violent anger

52 Got taller

53 Zeroes in on

54 Nods off

55 Tiny speck

56 Ducklike bird

57 Coastal flyer

60 Wood ash product