CROSSWORD FOR THURSDAY

ACROSS

1 Elegant

5 Befitting a crowned head

10 Small valley

14 Promise

15 Exclusive

16 Miscellany

17 Medicinal plant

18 Chunk of turf

19 Flightless bird of New

Zealand

20 Burning hot

22 Amplified

24 Actress — Perlman

26 Fishes

27 Ability to float

31 Fail to notice

34 Alphabetic trio

35 Actress — Moore

36 Ancient Mexican

38 Wind indicator

40 Judges

43 “Downton Abbey” title

44 Place often visited

46 Plunder

48 — de Janeiro

49 Tom, Dick and Harry

50 Record on film

52 Small monkey

55 Giant redwood

56 Perfect

60 Of the stars

64 Doily material

65 In the sky

67 Mammoth

sandwich

68 Gumbo ingredient

69 Fracas

70 Poems

71 Look searchingly

72 Cooks in water

73 Rx quantity

DOWN

1 Layer

2 Nimbus

3 “Believe — — not!”

4 Sundae topper

5 Blushed 6 — Lilly pharmaceuticals

7 Donate

8 Make expiation

9 River of forgetfulness

10 Lay off workers

11 Kind of engr.

12 Give a thumbs-up

13 Burden

21 “— — no idea!”

23 — mater

25 Pinnacle

27 Big party

28 War vessel (hyph.)

29 Happen

30 Investment income

32 Gaze fixedly

33 Yellow finch

37 Coagulate

39 Scarves and sweaters

41 Debatable 42 Great Greek philosopher

45 Labor

47 Cal. abbreviation

51 Manner

53 Opposing forces

54 Ait

56 Dud at the box office

57 Mere

58 “God's Little —”

59 Food fish

61 Change the decor

62 War personified

63 Forfeit

66 — and far between