TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Stopped sleeping 5 Food fish 9 Tiny shrimp 14 Author -Haley 15 Salary 16 Strange 17 Kennel noise 18 Healing succulent 19 Make glad 20 Opera heroine, often 22 More civil 24 Cartoon shrieks 25 Pry bars 26 Loud and rude 29 Whisper on stage 31 Rodeo gear 32 Griffin of game shows 33 Leprechaun kin 36 Annapolis grad 37 Turkey server 40 Pay as -- go 41 Funny one 42 Palindromic name for a girl 43 Comets, to an ancient 45 The March King 47 Napped leathers 48 Look at 51 Leaning tower town 52 Changed, as a law 54 Obeying 58 Radio part 59 Strange sightings 61 Skunk’s defense 62 Less mod- ern 63 Mar a car 64 Interlaced 65 Musthaves 66 “Paint the Sky With Stars” singer 67 Picnic fare

DOWN

1 Customs 2 Bogus butter 3 Brown seaweed 4 Set forth in words 5 Posh 6 Bright circles 7 Past 8 Intense 9 -- over (fainted) 10 Experience once more 11 Outraged 12 Metric measure 13 Wolfish looks 21 Fable au- thor 23 Pimiento holder 26 Played a trumpet 27 Hindu royalty 28 Off. helper 29 Health care option 30 Baja Ms. 32 Supplies with workers 33 Got a good look 34 Type of wolf 35 Nitpick 38 Magna cum -39 Shake awake 44 Grassy areas 45 Smoothed 46 Selects from the menu 47 Afternoon nap 48 Ecological hazard 49 Boxer -Griffith 50 Crystalfilled rock 51 Impostor 53 Kind of ranch 55 Adored one 56 Exploding star 57 Sprouted 60 Boggy ground