DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1) Start for "lock" or "iron" 5) Temple VIP

10) Like a useless tire

14) Vegas competitor

15) Milky gems

16) Whip end?

17) Opposing

18) Cowboy Bill of legend 19) Catch a glimpse of 20) Spooky residences 23) "Bud" or "pal" kin

24) Brisk energy

25) _-Wan Kenobi

28) Citi Field player

29) Jack of Sgt.

Friday fame

33) Fixed portion

35) Fill with enthusiasm 37) Aardvark morsels

38) Dark, spooky place 43) Affirm

44) Agreeable

45) Composed

48) Desperately need

a bath

49) Khan's title

52) Rubble maker,

big-time

53) Chinese restaurant

quaff

55) Consume heartily

57) Spooky thing on the

water

62) Ready and willing

go-with

64) Bus rider's "coin"

65) Indication of a voice

mai 1

66) One not using his

brain

67) Made mistakes

68) Sign for the

superstitious

69) Healthy type of bean

(var.)

70) Little darlings

71) Be Ii terate, in a way

DOWN

1) Kind of cracker

2) File menu option 3) Read between the lines 4) Executing

5) Rodeo tool

6) Imitated at a zoo? 7) "Goldberg Variations" composer

8) Softly hit single 9) Producer of magazines

or credit cards

10) Run away

11) Activity performed on

a dude ranch

12) It could cause a death

on the Nile

13) "_ will be done"

21) Namely

22) Place that exists to

pamper

26) Not just this one or

that one

27) "Meet Me _ Louis"

(1944 film)

30) Before, long before

now

31) Arctic floating chunk 32) What a seller seeks 34) Shadow, in a who

dunit

35) Common houseplant 36) French door part

38) Boss of a first lieut. 39) What one definitely

isn't

40) Intellectually

41) Make it a new game 42) Emulating a newborn 46) In-flight info, for short 47) Not just dinged

49) Obeying a curfew

50) Kind of pig

51) Add supplementary

material to

54) "O come let us_ Him" 56) Noted fur trader John

Jacob

58) _ carotene

59) Item of Creole

cookery

60) " ... and_ the twain

shall meet"

61) Stopping points

62) Showstoppers?

63) "I don't like your per

formance!"