UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Pond dweller 5 Doctor 10 Petty quarrel 14 Proposal 15 Curly-tailed dog 16 Water, in Baja 17 Swindle 18 Bitterness 20 Make a choice 22 Finders’ fees 23 Timidly 26 RSVP word 27 Actor Willem — 30 Charged particle 32 Sherpa’s country 36 Matty of the diamond 37 Hair goo 39 Famous Khan 40 Bring up 42 Nestled 44 Baseball’s Mel — 45 Do a slow burn 47 Glassmaker — Lalique 48 Type of spray 50 Mr. Tolstoy 51 Surfer slang 52 Alert color 54 Out of kilter 56 Glide lightly 60 Type of cracker 64 Not daunted 67 Pinch 68 Congers 69 “Lohengrin” or “Tosca” 70 Now, to Caesar 71 Bug repellent 72 Blunt

73 Like slate

DOWN

1 Robins’ beaks 2 Actress — Adams 3 Healthy 4 Dates (2 wds.) 5 Singer — Robbins 6 Barely make it 7 Negative prefix 8 Cato’s road 9 Hollow stems 10 Nogales nosh 11 Disney CEO Bob — 12 Endow

13 Oily substances 19 Coiled about 21 Ernesto Guevara 24 Big name in trains 25 — Kippur 27 Writer — Runyon 28 Prince Val’s wife 29 Printer’s assortments

31 Tortilla snacks 33 Grew ashen 34 Old satellite launcher

35 Put cargo on board 37 “The Gold-Bug” author 38 Unpaid 41 Small land masses 43 Nodding off 46 Iced drink 49 Portrait painter 51 Psst! 53 Audition tapes 55 Early camera 56 Went to court 57 Trouser part 58 Out of work 59 Entranced 61 Travel 62 Active volcano 63 Spicy 65 Stadium cheer 66 Make a wrong move