TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Sell hot tickets

6 Fabric meas. 9 Polite address

14 Pond scum 15 Winery feature

16 Mall for Plato

17 Play one’s -- right 18 Crisis 20 Used a prayer rug 21 Parched 22 Gleeful shout

23 Tips over 25 Snatches 28 Wyatt the lawman 31 Forceful person 35 Green garnish

38 More unctuous 39 Durham university 40 Game or season opener 42 Big party 43 Get one’s bearings 46 Psych up 49 Make an offer

50 Lucy Lawless role 51 Enjoy a hot tub

53 Race car engine 57 Chicago Loop trains 60 Zoo barker 63 Conebearer 65 Signaling device

68 Up in arms 69 Hosiery shade 70 Quip

71 -- a dull moment 72 Subse- quently 73 Cable network

74 “Ninotchka” name

DOWN

1 Plunder 2 Clatter 3 Come to terms

4 Soup server 5 Mortar gowiths

6 -- St. Laurent

7 Noblewoman

8 Not gentle 9 Kiosk buy, slangily 10 Mellow 11 Portuguese title 12 Principal 13 Poet -- Angelou

19 Skims through 24 “Gal” of song

26 Provo inst. 27 Muddle 29 Agt. 30 Glassware brand 32 Broad sts. 33 Ration out 34 Sourdough’s find 35 Virtuous 36 Like 37 Cattails 39 Decimal point 41 Hydrocarbon suffix 44 Prefix meaning “recent” 45 Foolish talk 47 Amatol ingredient 48 Trucking 52 Retirement plan

54 More uncommon 55 Cochise’s warrior 56 Sonnet stanza 57 “Como -usted?” 58 Page of a book 59 Grime 61 Bedouin 62 Engineering toy 64 Vindictive goddess 66 Gorilla 67 Part of “mpg”