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 --”